Turlough Carolan

1670-1738

' the last bard of Ireland '

here is what Oliver Goldsmith has to say about him :

"Of all the bards this country ever produced, the last and the greatest was Carolan the blind.

He was at once a poet, a musician, a composer, and sang his own verses to his harp.

The original natives never mention his name without rapture :

both his poetry and his music they have by heart ...."

( from the British Magazine July 1760 )

Turloughs Grave