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1. An Old Song - Rockchapel on the Feale (continued)

   

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   O, sweet old spot, dear old Rock, there were martyrs for your name.
   When the village rock was an altar and the priest in hiding came.
   With his dear old flock, now dead and gone, to pray to him on high
   They had for light the moon and stars, and their canopy the sky.
   That mass-rock we can see as yet, a monument to those.
   Who died for Patrick's light and God against the foreign foes.
   May they rest in peace, they kept the faith, and the devil could not steal.
   The martyr's soul of the penal days at Rockchapel - on - the Feale.

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   A romantic spot, with its woods and groves, where lovers they did stray.
   The birthplace of your patriots who fought in their own day.

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   History Edit

   Topics

   1. genre
      1. poetry
         1. folk poetry (~9,504)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Peggy Curtin

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Milleenduff, Co. Cork

   Informant

   Mr Patrick Curtin

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   78

   Address

   Milleenduff, Co. Cork