Red Roses Owed

Hilda Blennerhasset is said to walk the floors of Ballyseedy Castle in Ballycarty in Kerry carrying a single red rose. Why the rose? It was part of the rent due to the crown, to be paid on St John the Baptists Day every year...
Hilda Blennerhasset is said to walk the floors of Ballyseedy Castle in Ballycarty in Kerry carrying a single red rose. Why the rose? It was part of the rent due to the crown, to be paid on St John the Baptists Day every year…

She walks its halls within its walls
Red rose in ghostly hands
The rent to be paid when grant was made
Of these Fitzgerald lands.

Six pounds too a year was due
But in the afterlife it seems
Money is dead, but instead
Everything a promise means.

She walks its floors through walls and doors
A single rose around does bring
Word honoured to the crown as she looks down
From a window on a land that knows neither queen or king!

Do YOU want to stay at Ballyseedy Castle? She hasnt been seen in years, but you might meet the ghost… www.ballyseedecastle.com

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