School: An Carraigín (roll number 13836)
- Location:
- Carrigeen, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Bean Mhic Oireachtaigh
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- (continued from previous page)Those men were taken and in irons bound
The perjured jury they found them guilty,
And they died three martyrs for their country round.
It would grieve your heart on that fatal morning,
When friends assembled to bid farewell;
Wen the priests in chorus sang
Ora pro nobis
As they joined in prayer in their prison cell.
IV
As the clock struck eight their friends departed
They knew their end it was drawing near
They raised their heads and kissed each other
As wicked Kilcraft he did appear
Upon the gallows they gazed around them
Not a son of Erin could there be seen,
But the English blood-hounds came in their thousands
And gazed on Allen and his love for green
V
I am here on the brink of my grave(continues on next page)
