School: An Mhainistir, Móin Rátha (roll number 14243)
- Location:
- Mountrath, Co. Laois
- Teacher: Br Columban Ó Cróinín
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- (continued from previous page)Too long has a stranger killed Tara's gold throne
But we'll soon have a king and a crown of our own.
And its down etc.
III
Oh! brave Captain Rock he knows very well,
To make tyrants know their Lord God from Tom Bell.
And the parson and plunderer venegence will fell
For by jove, he wont spare either bullet or steel
And its down etc.
IIII
Be his creed what it may, let what will be his hue.
Whether, Papist or Billeman, Quaker or Jew:
Each land-jobbing rascal and proctor must know
The bold Captain Rock is the cock that must crow
And its down etc- Collector
- Peter Phelan
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- William Leahy
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Mountrath, Co. Laois