School: Killanure, Mountrath (roll number 8095)
- Location:
- Cill an Iúir, Co. Laoise
- Teacher: C. Ní Dhubhlainn
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- (continued from previous page)By the blood on my Claymore I, Phelim O Carroll.
Will save you, or die with you Father O' Farrell.
Black Carston has heard you were hid in Grange Castle.
From Seymore Lord Ossory's thrice accursted vassal.
I've been to his camp, and surprised by his yeomen.
I clove a way out through the ranks of the foeman.
He has burned the chapel and pillaged the Alter.
And sworn e'oer noon to swing you in a halter.
Will God's Will be done said Father O' Farrell.
As he mounted the steed with the aid of O'Carroll.
They are off, like a flash or the flight of a swallow.
Over meadow and moor, over hill, dell, and hollow.
They passed the ruined stronghold and Castle of Mannan.
That for years had resisted old Cromwell's best(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mr Patrick Breen
- Gender
- Male
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Inse an Uisce, Co. Laoise
