School: Ballinlig (roll number 2994)
- Location:
- Ballinlig, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: J. Seery
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0168, Page 436
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On young and old I now make bold,
I hope you will attend,
While here in grief and sorrow,
Those feeling lines I pen,
Concerning a young clergyman
His loss we do deplore
Who by heretics was murdered
Convenient to Dromore.
II
It being on the twelfth of February,
We mind that awful day,
When to annoint a dying man,
Our priest being called away,
For little was his notion,
To form such a plan,
To take away the dearest life,
Of our young clergyman.
III
Twas early the next morning,
Young men being passing by,
The blood being sprinkled on the road, They happened for to spy,
They traced it to a lime - stone quarry And its there they did behold
The body of our reverence was lying stiff and cold.(continues on next page)
- Informant
- Dan Farry
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 50
- Address
- Buninna, Co. Sligo
