School: Rockwood, Béal Átha an Dá Chab
- Location:
- Derreennaclogh, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Eibhlín Ní Chorcora
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0288, Page 314
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- The following song was composed about Timothy Cadogan Coomdelame who was hanged for the murder of William Birde a Bantry landlord.
Farewell to friends and relatives at home and far away,
The sword of death will cut away my thread of life this day,
With heart and hand I write those lines for my country men to see,
That I am going to face my God on a shameful gallow tree.A sad and dreary month has passed since I was guilty found,
For the murder of W. S. Birde that day in Bantry town,
On the eleventh day of January I am summoned to appear,
Before the judgement seat of God my sentence there to hear.
It was cruel and wicked evidence that swore my life away,
I never thought it would be my lot to die in Cork County jail,
Till December 1900 my prosecutors swore,(continues on next page)
