{"id":2582,"date":"2016-06-19T12:04:14","date_gmt":"2016-06-19T12:04:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/?p=2582"},"modified":"2016-06-19T12:07:12","modified_gmt":"2016-06-19T12:07:12","slug":"abduction-at-legan-bridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/abduction-at-legan-bridge\/","title":{"rendered":"Abduction at Legan Bridge"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Horse<\/p>\n

Bride abduction is thankfully very rare in Western Europe now, apart from Albania and Montenegro, and most commonly heard of from Kyrgistan where its known as Ala kachuu<\/em> (\u0430\u043b\u0430 \u043a\u0430\u0447\u0443\u0443) but in more dangerous years it was very common in Britain and Ireland… this poem tells one tragic tale from Longford…\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

When love is war and men on horseback
\nStop a carriage in the night
\nThe maiden stolen to waiting arms
\nThe passengers ashen with the fright<\/p>\n

Cupids Bandits are but shadows now
\nA tale in time to be told
\nWhere she of money eloped with her lover poor
\nWhose love was forbidden in days of old!<\/p>\n

Not such a case was at Legan Bridge
\nThe bandits had black hearts
\nTheir horses were the hounds of Satan
\nWho with their quarry did depart.<\/em><\/p>\n

The rain poured down on the road to Moyvore
\nAt which the posse of robbers in the darkness arrived
\nThat the lady was ill it was clear to all
\nWho barely the abduction, beating and journey survived.<\/p>\n

A silenced rector with bible in hand
\nAgainst her protests made her a wife
\nAgainst her will the union was consummated
\nThe girl barely clinging to life.<\/p>\n

Her illness got worse as the hours went on
\nGuilt got to some of the abducting gang
\nFor the kidnapping they might swing
\nBut for her death they would surely hang.<\/p>\n

The girl she was a parsons daughter
\nHer mother his widow who they at gunpoint robbed
\nThe word around the village spread
\nThe crowd angry gathered and the tavern mobbed.<\/p>\n

She was returned home the morning after
\nComforted by her own, put to her sick bed
\nBut health was never to return
\nThe maiden in six weeks was dead.<\/p>\n

Would there be justice for the parsons daughter?
\nThat there would be her family did hope
\nThe authorities did their best but alas
\nThe raping robbers escaped the rope.<\/p>\n

The devil looks after his own they say
\nGod looks after His own too in time is true
\nShe since has been with her own and the angels
\nThe gang their lecherous lust will in hell’s flames rue!<\/p>\n

\"Legan
Legan Bridge in County Longford, the scene of the abduction of Eninor Perry<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Reference:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

* Abduction at Legan Bridge – (article) Moxham Family<\/a><\/p>\n

* Legan Bridge on “Buildings of Ireland”<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bride abduction is thankfully very rare in Western Europe now, apart from Albania and Montenegro, and most commonly heard of from Kyrgistan where its known as Ala kachuu (\u0430\u043b\u0430 \u043a\u0430\u0447\u0443\u0443) but in more dangerous years it was very common in Britain and Ireland… this poem tells one tragic tale from …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,155,2925],"tags":[2926,2934,2927,2928,42,2929,2930,2931,2932,2933,1597],"class_list":["post-2582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-rights","category-death","category-longford","tag-bride-abduction","tag-church-of-ireland","tag-legan","tag-legan-county-longford","tag-longford","tag-moxham","tag-moxham-family","tag-moyvore","tag-moyvore-westmeath","tag-rape","tag-tavern","column","twocol"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7EI4f-FE","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":144,"url":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/in-the-shadow-of-cairn-hill\/","url_meta":{"origin":2582,"position":0},"title":"In the Shadow of Cairn Hill","author":"Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh","date":"13th July 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Are they true the old tales, that he who slay Queen Maeve, Neath one of these cairns in death enjoys sleep? 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