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1. Antrim John (continued)

   

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   He was a Wexford man.
   When they captured Antrim John in the well they beheaded him & brought it to Hacketts father & he in bed sick & asked
   him was that the head of his son but he said " No" & that he hoped that he would leave some of their heads lower than their backsides before they would take him yet.
   (Other fragments of ballads which
   Tom cannot recollect are)-
   "We made them fly through Hacketstown
   That day from Hardy's Gate
   We cut off their head leaders[?] as we
   done at the white ['___'?])"
   All he ever heard of Holt

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   • Thomas Ellis