Volume: CBÉ 0407 (Part 2)

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1. A Spot of Folklore from Co. Carlow

   

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   The old woman who could at will turn herself into a hare. Firmly believed down by the Slaney side in Co Carlow.
   My father ("P.M.D. of the Nation") immortalised one such incident in the following Ballad - wh- has never been published.

   The Cailleach Fay or Slaney's Magic Hare

   One night - it's long long ago
   As in my cot awake I lay
   I heard a whispring at my window low:
   "Be ready at the break of day

   "When sparrow chirups on morning breeze
   Sir Richard (i) and his beagles tall
   Will dash along amid the trees,
   To draw at Clonegall

   "An English captain and his lady fair
   Will join the retinue gay
   And the master swears from out her lair
   He'll drive the Cailleoch Fay"

   (i) Sir R. Butler of Ballintemple, Tullow, Co Carlow

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   Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.

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   Item type

   Lore

   Language

   English

   Writing mode

   Handwritten

   Writing script

   Roman script

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