The keen of the South of Ireland: as illustrative of Irish political and domestic history, manners, music, and superstitions / Collected, edited, and chiefly translated by T. Crofton Croker.

Thomas Crofton Croker

Date:: 1844

Credit: The keen of the South of Ireland: as illustrative of Irish political and domestic history, manners, music, and superstitions / Collected, edited, and chiefly translated by T. Crofton Croker. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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and if I succeed in procuring any, shall transmit them to you. ‘¢T have the honour to be, Sir, “¢ Your obedient Servant, ‘¢ HERBERT BALDWIN.” This keen, by Mrs. O’Leary, the editor has not been able to obtain; but the story of the circum- stances under which it was composed has long been familiar to him, and is thus minutely related by Mr. Windele, in his “‘ Historical and Descrip- tive Notices of the City of Cork and its Vicinity.” “In the south-east angle of the nave [of Kil- crea Abbey] is a low altar-tomb, covering the burial-place of Arthur O'Leary, the ‘ outlaw,’ whose name is given as Cornelius in Burke’s ‘Gommoners. The inscription upon it reads: “Lo! Arthur Leary, generous, handsome, brave, Slain in his bloom, lies in this humble grave. Died May 4th, 1773, aged 26 years.” Mr. O’ Leary wasa gentlemanof considerable per- sonal property (the then laws not allowing Roman Catholics to hold real estates), and fell a victim to the atrocity of the old penal enactments against the Catholics. He had been an officer in the Hungarian service, and was married to a daughter of Daniel O’Connell, Esq. of Darrynane (grand-

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