School: St Egney's (C.), Buncrana
- Location:
- Buncrana, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Ellen Daly
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- Poem - Hegarty's Rock
Would you know the story of Hegarty's Rock
That stands out there amid the shock
Of the Swilly's waves
Where the wild wind raves,
And the sea is plumed with tossing mane,
As of steed repelled and urged again?
2
Do you start when you see the red at its base
That is but the blush of the great sun's face?
But the blood tint so,
Long, long ago,
Crimsoned the waters round Hegarty's Rock
When the troopers sword God's annointed struck.
3
Ah, sad is the tale that is here to tell,
Of priest, and trooper, and traitor as well -
A traitor found
On Irish ground
To sell for a price, as Christ was sold,
The soggarth's life for a sum of gold!
4
The time felt the scourge of the Penal laws,
And death was reward for the true to the cause;
For then outlawed
Our country and God.(continues on next page)- Informant
- William Roddy
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