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Location: Carlow County
A love song about two lovers separated by the military term of the young man.

Early, early last Thursday night
The Myshall cavalry gave me a fright:
In my misfortune and sad downfall
I was prisoner taken by Cornwall.

In his guardhouse there I was tried
And in his parlour my sentence tried’
My sentence passed and…

Come boys let us follow the fox
No more we’ll be called lazy grunters;
We’ll hunt him through mountains and rocks
For we are the jolly fox hunters.

We’ll rise him at six in the morn;
I’ll hold ten to one that we’ll kill him;
If Lang…

Location: Carlow county
A call to battle to take the All-Ireland crown from the Kingdom

The poem is a snapshot in time, noticing the small nest in a less than secure setting.

Location: Carlow County
Another song in praise of Kevin Barry, written by MCN of Borris

A picture of the harsh life of a mountain farmer

For two hundred years its stood,
Among the Wicklow hills,
The source of people's hopes,
The cure for many ills.
It was built by Fr Blanchfield,
With faith and a hundred pound,
And it is fitting that there he rests,
Inside the church he…

Location: Carlow north
Recitation about the Rambling Houses tradition.