School: Lisball
- Location:
- Lisball, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: S. O' Doherty
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1009, Page 158
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Song (continued)
“He left a place called Enniskee on Saturday afternoon”
(continued from previous page)Then pointing towards his lordship
The prisoner he did say
'Your own soul needs more prayers than mine,
God pity you today'
Then the warders pulled him away out of public sight
Into a dreary cell in Armagh jail
The brought him on that night
VII
Pray you that a noble mind
Pray do not from it part
And n'er contrive a wicked crime
With murder in your heart
For when the deed is committed
What sorrow will it bring
And then your conscience will be a hell
As it was with Philip King(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Rose Anne Farrelly
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Nolagh, Co. Cavan
- Informant
- Mr P. Farrelly
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Nolagh, Co. Cavan