School: Camross, Mountrath
- Location:
- Camross, Co. Laois
- Teacher: Pádraig Ó Heifernáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0826, Page 453
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- (continued from previous page)IV
I now declare it truly my heart is sore oppressed
A sorry man am I today and nowhere can I find rest
Sweet sleep has from my eyelids fled my hair as white as snow
For my inhuman conduct on the Plains of Aghaboe.V
A King once reigned in England who cursed these very laws
It deprived him of his subjects and that without just cause
Now I curse the self same weapons and their forgers too also
For they caused my whole destruction on the plains of Aghaboe.VI
And their week of torture I feel I can’t endure
So I’ll settle with the lady and make her tenure sure
I’ll make her restitution and give a lease also
In hopes that I might live in peace near beauteous Aghaboe.VII
To all rack renting landlords I now say hold your hand
Do not eject your tenants but plant them on the land
It was such cruel conduct that proved mine overthrow
And swept an English Army from the plains of Aghaboe.
