Fiddler Stone

The verses inscribed on the 'Fiddler's Stone' at Castle Caldwell were still legible when Alexander Hogg (1870-1939) took this photograph.

The inscription reads:

To the memory of Denis M'Cabe, Fidler who fell out of the St Patrick Barge belonging to Sir James Caldwell Bart and Count of Milan, and was drowned off this Point Aug. 15, 1770-

'Beware ye Fidlers of ye Fidler's fate

Nor tempt ye deep lest you repent too late

You ever have been deemed to water foes

Then shun ye lake till it with whiskey flows

On firm Land only - Exercise your skill

There you may play and safely drink your fill'.

D.D.D.

J.J.

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