School: Bealach, Bansha (roll number 1131)
- Location:
- Ballagh, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: S. Meiscill
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0575, Page 286
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- (I)In Bansha woods long time I lived
And all my generation,
Till that grand peer from Curraghmore
Disturbed my habitation,
The cry of hound and horn-sound
From slumber roused me early,
In Father Kane's enclosed demense,
I cleared the rural paling.
(II)Through hills and dales and verdant vales,
I soon reached Bansha Glebe lands,
The mill pond I nimbly swam,
Close by the "peelers" station.
Those chaps they thought to make me halt,
With loaded guns and bayonets,
But Brave Mc Cloud gave them no power,
On me to make a seizure.(continues on next page)
