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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0910, Page 206

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    At length, brave Michael Dwyer, your and your trusty men.
    Are hunted o'er the mountains and tracked into the Glen;
    Sleep not, but watch and listen; keep ready blade and ball;
    The soldiers know your hiding tonight in wild Emall.
    There is a large stone on Ballon-hill called the Slippy stone, and old kings were buried under it long ago. And it said that a king left his hand on the stone and his fingerprints were seen on it ever after. His name was Cather Mór and according to local history, he was the first King of Leinster and afterwards Ard Rí of Ireland.
    General Lecky of Ballykealy also found Urns under the stone and he sent them away to Dublin.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. poetry
        1. folk poetry (~9,504)
    2. time
      1. historical periods by name (~25)
        1. 1798 (~642)
    3. objects
      1. man-made structures
        1. historical and commemorative structures (~6,794)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Annie Doyle
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Ballon, Co. Carlow