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   window, would guide him Roche, through the night."

   At last Eileen's suitors became so numerous that Barry óg said.

   He who wins my daughter's hand, must bear the rose away.

   He who plucks the rose from yonder ivy tower may call Eileen Barry óg his bride that very hour.

   At last the day has dauned, whose bride will Eileen be?

   On the castle's rugged wall the sight is fair to see.

   Six of Munster's foremost chieftains are climbing up the wall.

   But see! Roche outspeeds them all.

   Love seemed to raise his arms on high, as he scaled it's dizzy height.

   And forward stretched him out, to pluck that rose so bright.

   But the treacherous stone had given way wheron his foot had stood.

   And his mangled body plunges down to the Bandon's rapid flood.

   Not a tear was seen on Eileen's face, as Roche

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   History Edit

   Topics

   1. objects
      1. man-made structures
         1. historical and commemorative structures (~6,794)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Caitlín Ní Miodhache

   Gender

   Female

   Informant

   Mrs O Connor

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Lislevane, Co. Cork

   Informant

   Timmy Collins

   Relation

   Relative (other than parent or grandparent)

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Garrane, Co. Cork