School: Rathcoyle, Kiltegan

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   It cannot be excelled where e're you go
   In Baltinglass Ive attended Mass
   And in Rathvilly and Annamoe
   On each sabbath day I have heard them play
   With attentive ear I have heard each note
   Their voices sweet, mild and discreet
   In our "Holy Temple in Killamoat."

   

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2. Old Poets

   

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   Poets were not numerous in this district in olden times. There was a man by the name of Mr Foley from the townland of Mullins who used to make songs about dances and such like things which occured in the neighbourhood. He composed the following song. I You jolly sons of Erins Isle Attention pay to me Ill sing to you a verse or two About a jolly spree. It was held against the old man's will Perhaps you heard before It was in the house of old Mick Dunne He lived in Rashenmore. II When the girls they all assembled

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   Sarah Heffernan

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   Age

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