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Location: Blackstairs
The poem narrates the story of a highwayman's attempt to kidnap a girl, her rescue by her true love and the subsequent death of the highwayman after a pursuit by the people.

Location: Borris area.
MCN was from the Borris area. The poem is a simple prayer of trust in God.

Location: South Carlow, Myshall area
The men were slain during the Irish civil War in 1922, at Shean, near Myshall. It seems fitting to have both poems side by side.

Location: South Carlow, especially the Mount Leinster area.
Eddie wrote this as a mark of respect for his good friend Jim Nolan, the well-known storyteller from Ballinrush, Myshall.

Location: South, Barrow valley
While people in Newfoundland claim ownership of this song, it is more likely that it was brought to Newfoundland by emigrants from the south Carlow area.

Location: All county, especially north-east and Borris area.
MCN reflects admiration for a hero-martyr as well as anger at the treatment meted out to Kevin Barry just before his execution. Being from the south of the county, this shows the…

South Carlow.
The song remembers the sad local event when a German bomb struck the Shannon house, during WW2
Two singers have two different airs to the song.

There is sorrow round the sallies now,
For a brave young lad is gone.
The O’Toole’s home is lonely now,
That once was bright and gay.

His mother’s heart is broke
For the loss of a darling son,
And the father he’s bent with grief,…

Location: West and South County, Barrow Valley
More memories of a walk by the Barrow.

Location: South Carlow
A celebration and description of the action when St. Mullins won the hurling championship in 1983