Volume: CBÉ 0407 (Part 2)

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1. A Spot of Folklore from Co. Carlow (continued)

   

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   Full fifty guineas were gi'en that day
   To Slaney's Magic Hare
   That old, old woman, the Cailleach Fay
   Pining in her witche's lair.

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   In later years, as past that way in fear I trod,
   Beside that ruined gabble, shunned by man and God,
   A form ethereal I espied full clear, that deftly spun
   An altar rug from furry spoils of many a run;
   And thus 'tis whispered by night in kitchens ' sheltered keep
   She'll spend her purging time away from chasms' chaos deep:
   Tis said in hour of deed she saved from death full gory
   Brave Father Murphy, Slaney's pride and Ireland's glory
   Patrick Mac Donnell (1864)

   

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2. Coughlan of Rathrush

   

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   Unpublished Ballad by P.M.D. (1865)
   Argument: Period 1798. Young Ned Coughlan's mare Lishnoo was the envy of all the local "gentry" and esp of the army of occupation. Lady Elizabet constantlly taunted her lover, the dashing young widowed Captain of [?]

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   Item type

   Lore

   Language

   Béarla

   Writing mode

   Handwritten

   Writing script

   Roman script

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