School: Tullycasson
- Location:
- Ardvagh, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: (name not given)
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- This song is about the proposed destruction of Swanlinbar Chapel by the Orange men nearly four hundred years ago. The Swanlinbar boys gathered together, and saved it, also the Glangevlin men.
1
Ye gentle Muses, I pray excuse me,
For my intrusion or learnings wing,
Inspire my genius, ye bards and sages,
My country's praises, I mean to sing.
2
Tradition mentions, contradiction,
How blessed St Patrick he was sent or'e,
By Pope Celestine to improve a vineyard,
Called Inís Óg or the Virvin Shore.
3.
And like St Peter when his Master told him,
To feed His lambs, and his flocks to keep,
He ranged the desert, the vale, the mountains
And briny ocean for the straying sheep.
4
He consecrated three hundred Bishops,
Drove snakes, and serpants from our saintly Isle,
And told the people that the church would suffer,(continues on next page)- Collector
- Jim Mc Govern
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Eshveagh, Co. Cavan
- Informant
- James Mc Govern
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Eshveagh, Co. Cavan