{"id":3932,"date":"2017-09-07T13:42:34","date_gmt":"2017-09-07T12:42:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/?p=3932"},"modified":"2017-09-07T13:42:34","modified_gmt":"2017-09-07T12:42:34","slug":"the-lady-of-culray","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/the-lady-of-culray\/","title":{"rendered":"The Lady of Culray"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Said<\/a>
Said to be Ralph Anthony Dopping and friends on the lake, the drawing had writing we cant make out. Who the sketch is by I dont know, from the Anthony Dopping collection as published in “The Lough Gowna Valley by Frank Collumb. Culray, where Catherine Dopping who became Catherine Smith settled was close by Derrycassin where a Catherine Smyth became a Catherine Dopping!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

She was a landlords daughter
\nHer lover not so grand
\nIt was illegal to be a Catholic
\nYou could not own your land
\nLittle had he to offer
\nThe future for them looked bleak
\nBut he had the love of a good man
\nWhich every girl does seek.<\/p>\n

\"Ralph<\/a>
Ralph Dopping who married Catherine Smyth of Grousehall was a brother of Catherine Dopping who became Catherine Smith on marrying James Smith of Culray<\/figcaption><\/figure>
\nBut them, they were horrified
\nThat a girl of noble blood
\nAnd a Protestant, would marry a Catholic
\nThe likes happen, never should!
\nCold hearted and cruel, it eat them up
\nA self righteous sense of shame
\nThey decreed never another Doppings girl would bear
\nBy birth Catherine as a name!<\/p>\n

In a twist of fate her brother Ralph married
\nA girl by the name of Catherine Smyth
\nWho became Catherine Doppings, the name she left behind
\nTo take the name her brothers wife was born with!
\nHer father had bought Derrycassins lands
\nFrom her uncle D’Arcy. by Gowna’s lake
\nThey lived close by but as is not at all
\nBy she who married for loves sake.<\/p>\n

The folk live there to this very day
\nWho are of her kith and kin
\nBecause James Smith loved Catherine Dopping
\nAnd Catherine loved him.
\nThough time has passed to stain remains
\nIt is sad as I write to say
\nFew if any women who are as Doppings born
\nAre called Catherine to this day!<\/p>\n

\"Derrycassin<\/a>
Derrycassin House in North Longford, close to Culray where Catherine Dopping who was now Mrs John Smith lived with her children, and her descendants live to this day.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

She was a landlords daughter Her lover not so grand It was illegal to be a Catholic You could not own your land Little had he to offer The future for them looked bleak But he had the love of a good man Which every girl does seek. 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