{"id":3508,"date":"2017-02-15T20:36:16","date_gmt":"2017-02-15T20:36:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/?p=3508"},"modified":"2017-02-14T00:05:26","modified_gmt":"2017-02-14T00:05:26","slug":"cursed-crossbreakers-of-ballinalee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/cursed-crossbreakers-of-ballinalee\/","title":{"rendered":"Cursed Crossbreakers of Ballinalee"},"content":{"rendered":"

A tale of sectarian attack by Orange Order members on a grave of a sister of Thomas Newcomen Edgeworth as it was in a shape of a cross, which they saw as Catholic… Here is the story on the Irish Folklore Commission<\/a><\/u><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"Saint<\/a>
Saint Johns Church of Ireland Ballinalee, where the Edgeworth woman was buried…<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Celtic cross it stood over his dead sister
\nTom\u00e1s Edgeworth mourned in Kilshrewly
\nHis parishioners who hated all things papish
\nLooked on her memorial angrily.<\/p>\n

Plotted they did one night to come
\nThey came, men with sledgehammers and crowbars too,
\nTook in turns the cross to smash
\nBeing Orangemen loyal and blue…<\/p>\n

The morning came and the word went round
\nKilshrewlys door bore an ashen brother
\n“Who and why such things would do
\nTo a girls grave round which her kin mourning gather?”<\/p>\n

He hastened to the Catholic priest Father Brady
\nKnowing well it was not his flock
\nThem both though differing faiths were firm friends
\nThe Ballinalee curate was too in shock!<\/p>\n

\"Bridge
Bridge on the grounds of Kilshrewly House, home of Thomas Newcomen Edgeworth<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

“Take it from me” Father Brady assured Tomas
\nIt will be avenged inside the year
\nPriests have powers beyond the holy it is said
\nBy those who know such a curse to fear.<\/p>\n

Hamilton and the smasher crew
\nKnew sickness in the arm,
\nHe who smashed the left arm, his left arm rotted
\nDitto the right, so all came to harm.<\/p>\n

He who smashed the head of a tumor died
\nWho smashed the foot, walked no more and too passed
\nSo panicking seeing his comrades fall
\nTo confess and repent went Robinson, the last.<\/p>\n

A penance to him was given
\nAnd the curse by him would pass
\nHe was to stand to meet and greet the Catholic parishioners
\nEach Sunday at Ballinalee chapel after mass.<\/p>\n

His penance he served for the seven alloted years
\nTrue as his word he came to no harm from the curse
\nSo the tale is told that how bad your deeds to another you do
\nA priests spell on you can bring even worse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A tale of sectarian attack by Orange Order members on a grave of a sister of Thomas Newcomen Edgeworth as it was in a shape of a cross, which they saw as Catholic… Here is the story on the Irish Folklore Commission The Celtic cross it stood over his dead …<\/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":[3166,3429,23],"tags":[3494,3499,3496,3498,3497,2447,3495],"class_list":["post-3508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-irish-folklore-commission-poems-inspired-by-records-from","category-lesser-known-ireland","category-north-longford","tag-crossbreakers","tag-edgeworthstown","tag-kilshrewly","tag-mostrim","tag-seactarianism","tag-st-johnstown","tag-thomas-edgeworth","column","twocol"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7EI4f-UA","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4691,"url":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/she-stood-alone-at-the-altar\/","url_meta":{"origin":3508,"position":0},"title":"She Stood Alone At The Altar","author":"Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh","date":"22nd May 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"The Ms Dopping-Hepenstal stood up by her groom who had eloped to India with another woman without her knowing is still spoken of today. 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