Re: Family Castle?
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Family Castle?
3/04/02
How great to tread on the family soil. It is my dream someday to do the same, sit at the base of Cloughleigh, and drink a pint or two... Here is some information I received in the early 1980's from a local historian, who I wrote seeking information about the Condon stronghold near Kilworth...Mary Cotter of Cross House, Kilworth, a poet in both Irish and English, a painter, keen local historian, painstaking genealogist sent a photograph (circa 1950) of the castle, along with the following original poem.
Proud Cloughleigh you stand alone
The Funcheon winds below.
Its murmuring streams lull you to sleep
And dreams of long ago...
You stand there still by Bridge and Mill,
So silent and serene, many you have seen
Come and Go
Proud Lords and Ladies gay, The Great O'Neill,
Laying waste to Barrymore.
Many a proud head fell to the cruel axeman's blow,
Condon and Clangibbon, May you bewail,
And to this day the water's red, in the hollow
stone below.
Beneath the rock there is a cave that leads to Shanacloon,
Where many a man found refuge, when all but hope had gone.
Lord Edward too that Great Fitzgerald, when the foe was
all around, Countess Margaret led him to escape,
in that tunnel underground.
Noble Earl once Lord of all, sleep now you in your Tomb,
Priest cursed the grasses green grow on your lovely home,
And late at night he too is heard, White horses
thundering by,
Now nothing's left of that great house but the curlew's
lonely cry,
From your lofty tower that rears on high you can see for miles around
From the Galtees to the Kilworth Moors,
where Willie Brennan roamed,
And late at night he too passed by, in a coffin from Clonmel
To lie beside the Abbey walls in a grave no man can tell.
Michael Doheny, Liam Lynch too passed by, one to America
Far away and Kilcrumper one to lie.
Kilworth was, Fermoy is, and Mitchelstown will be,
But no matter what changes time may bring you'll still
Be there Cloughleigh...
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