School: Tiercahan
- Location:
- Tircahan, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: P. Ó Riain
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- (continued from previous page)From Leitrims mountains they came in thousands,
From Cavan's hills and Fermanagh gay.
Saying ''Where is the offspring of the stranger
That dare oppose us or over Church to-day?
When those Milesians were all assembled,
And ranged in order, in septs and clans
I heard one chieftain sat to another
What keeps our brethren from unfaithful Glan?
Un Monteagh brave have you been divided,
You once wore laurels, though now a slave
Your sons of old around the Hills of Macken
Would loose their lives or their chapel save.
The Swanlinbar men were all determined
To face the tyrant and make him yield.
Their cheers re-echoed the heavenly regions
As they manoeuvred in Gallaghers' fields
My stupid brain can't reveal their number
A hundred thousand they all ceeded far,
All praying homage to the ''Star of Europe''
The Catholic Curate of Swanlinbar (Fr Ben. O Reilly C.C.)
Had I the pen or the skill of Homer,
Or the poet U vigil of ancient time
I would feel unable to set forth the praises
Of our holy pastor he's a saint divine (Fr Peter Whelan P,D P.P)
I lay down my pen as the case is settled
And fill your glasses with rum and gin(continues on next page)
- Informant
- Brigid Mc Govern
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 75
- Address
- Drumbar, Co. Cavan
- Informant
- Joseph Mc Govern
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 80
- Address
- Drumbar, Co. Cavan
- Informant
- Pat Mc Govern
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 81
- Address
- Drumbar, Co. Cavan
