Location: Carlow West, especially Old Leighlin
A hymn in praise of one of the great local saints.
The recording was made at Easter 2019, sung by the choir of St. Lazerian's cathedral at the annual celebration of the saint's feastday.
Verses 3 and…
Location: Carlow town and county The recitation, popularised by Val vousden, tells the joy of parents at the imminent entry of a somewhat 'normal' boy into the priesthood
William A. Byrne, from Rathangan in Kildare, was a professor in Knockbeg College. 'The Light on the Broom' was the collection from which this poem is taken.
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…