page_title: Kilcash Castle
section_title: The lament for Kilcash
hierarchical_section_title: Kilcash Castle / The lament for Kilcash
caption_attribution_description: English: Kilcash Castle This picture was taken from the main road toward the castle.
context_page_description: Kilcash Castle is a ruined castle off the N24 road just west of Ballydine in County Tipperary, Ireland. It is in the care of the Irish State. The Butler dynasty has important links to the area.
context_section_description: The castle is best known for the song "Kilcash" (Irish: Cill Chaise), which mourns the ruin of the castle and the death of Margaret Magennis, Viscountess Iveagh. The song has been ascribed to Fr John Lane (d. 1776), but the woods lamented in its first stanza were not sold until 1797 and 1801, long after Lane's death. The earliest manuscripts of the poem date from the mid-nineteenth century. Its first stanza reads:
  Cad a dhéanfaimid feasta gan adhmad?
  Tá deireadh na gcoillte ar lár;
  níl trácht ar Chill Chais ná ar a teaghlach
  is ní chluinfear a cling go bráth.
  An áit úd a gcónaíodh an deighbhean
  fuair gradam is meidhir thar mhnáibh,
  bhíodh iarlaí ag tarraingt tar toinn ann
  is an t-aifreann binn á rá.
  Now what will we do for timber,
  With the last of the woods laid low?
  There's no talk of Cill Chais or its household
  And its bell will be struck no more.
  That dwelling where lived the good lady
  Most honoured and joyous of women
  Earls made their way over wave there
  And the sweet Mass once was said.
  (translation by Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin)
caption: The castle from a distance
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