Volume: CBÉ 0265
- Date
- 1935
- Collector
- Location
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The Main Manuscript Collection, Volume 0265, Page 0090
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- (continued from previous page)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(continues on next page)