School: Ringville, Slieverue (roll number 6621)
- Location:
- Ringville, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: Síle de Paor
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0845, Page 070
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- (continued from previous page)Translation of CurseAccursed be Ballincrea's people
From whom the hound was sent to me
As long as bell shall ring in steeple
As long a man and time shall be
Accursed the black breed of the woman
Who served to me this filthy hound
From their ivry mouths thence forward, no man
Shall hear but foul, impious sound
Accursed the place! behold I strike it
With my red bolt and seal its doom
May all good men for e'er dislike it
May it be cursed with deaf & dumb.It is belived that the malediction of the great Patrick still remains in force as the inhabitants of Ballincrea are remarkable for blaspheming, and it has not been since the memory of tradition without a lame, dumb or ivry-mouthed man.
- Informant
- John Knox
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 76
- Address
- Ballinlaw, Co. Kilkenny
