Rody MacCorly was hanged at Toomebridge, Good Friday, March 1st 1800.
(Reported in Belfast Newsletter March 4th, 1800.)

          You tender-hearted Christians all, now listen unto me,
          Till I relate these verses great, these verses two or three,
          Concerning of a clever youth was cut off in his bloom,
          And died upon the gal-lows tree, near to the Bridge of Toome.
  
                  "Rody McCorly" (Anon, c1798) in Colm O'Lochlainn: More Irish Street Ballads.

[thanx John Moulden of Ulster-songs where these things are available as broadsheets.]

Also found in DigTrad where there is additionally "Roddy McCorley," words by Ethna Carberry. Howard Kaplan points out, however, that, Easter is always the first Sunday after the first full moon after the spring equinox, so Good Friday cannot be as late as March 1st.

It seems that March 1, 1800 turns out to be a Saturday. There may be some mythology involved in all this.

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