young hero sleeps, And lovers around her are sighing, But coldly she turns from their gaze, and weeps, For her heart in his grave is lying. The road leading past Saint Enda's Park in Rathfarnham is called Sarah Curran Avenue. The ruins of The Priory still stand across the road from the park, in The Hermitage housing estate. There once was a pub in Rathfarnham Village called The Sarah Curran, named in her honour. In her family's home town of Newmarket, County Cork, there is a statue of Sarah Curran standing across the road from the graveyard where she is buried. Newmarket also have a local anthem called Up Up Newmarket, written by Fr. Norris. Its air is that of God Save Ireland. Sarah Curran is mentioned within the song lyrics....... Boston boasts of Bunker Hill; brave men fought at Gettysville. Newmarket too, has honours like the rest. Here ’t was Curran first drew breath; after Emmet’s tragic death They laid his sweetheart Sarah here to rest. Amelia Clotilda Jennings wrote a poem about her called "Sarah Curran's Song." See also Irish Rebellion of 1803 References People from Rathfarnham 1782 births 1808 deaths 19th-century deaths from tuberculosis Tuberculosis deaths in Ireland 18th-century Irish people 19th-century Irish people