ballymooney

Updated: June 12, 2025

It was thus: 'A man there was near Ballymooney, Was guilty of a deed o' blood, For thravellin' alongside iv ould Tim Rooney. He kilt him in a lonesome wood. 'He took his purse, and his hat and cravat. And stole his buckles and his prayer-book, too; And neck-and-heels, like a cruel savage, His corpus through the wood he drew.

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu - The House by the Church-Yard