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   Catholic countrymen were in such hard conditions as regards places of worship and there and then he offered the Priest a plot of ground whereon to build a good chapel, and the plot of ground was to be free of rent forever and he assured him that he would give assistance in the building of the chapel and placed ten golden guineas we are told in the holy priest's hand. Soon the chapel of Kilmachree was to - building of lime and stone and well slated and remained there till after Father Kelly's death. Poole died in the year of 1827 and is buried in the Quaker burial ground of Forest. He was succeeded by his nephew a Mr. Webb who was very fond of his uncle and often hunted with him on the Mountain of Forth and when Mr. Poole died Webb composed the following lines entitled "The Mountain of Forth" :-
   The winds were fresh, the sky was clear and
   beautiful the day,
   Broad Forth's old Saxon Barony stretched far,
   beneath we lay,
   As seated on Forth's rugged hill, and
   looking towards the sea

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   History Edit

   Date

   31 July 1937

   Item type

   Lore

   Language

   English

   Writing mode

   Handwritten

   Writing script

   Gaelic script

   Collector

   • Domhnall de Buitléir

   Informant

   • Tomás Ó Ciaráin