School: Rathmeage, Hackettstown
- Location:
- Rathmeague, Co. Wicklow
- Teacher: Pádraig Ó Tuathail
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0920, Page 351
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You head inspectors, great architectors
Likewise you writer I pray attend
Do not refuse me. You will excuse me
For my intrusion if I offend
Grant ,e this farrow as I am a stranger
Tho' doomed to labour I am styled a poet
I'm bound in duty to extol the beauty
Of this new Chapel at Kilamoat
II
A skilful mason laid the foundation
In eighteen hundred + thirty eight
We will trust in heaven 'gainst forty seven
Our lady temple will have complete
One a rock this founded + well surrounded
With pine + cedar + other trees
By High Parks groves it is well abounded
To shade it from the cold winter breeze
III
Its walls are splendid, its cross extended
With precious stones from a crystal rock
The bell in motion tells time approaching
Calls to devotion St Peters flock
The aisles completed + grandly slated
Cannot be equalled in all the land
This temple pure we will make secure
For the shocks of Boreas it must withstand(continues on next page)
