School: Ceathrú (Carton) (roll number 15339)
- Location:
- Cartron, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Seán Ó Floinn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0216, Page 033
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Song - Francis McGann (continued)
“Left every good neighbour and true honest friend”
(continued from previous page)He was versed in the language of all foreign parts
And master of seven bright liberal arts7The art of surveying he had at command
Mathematics and music he did understand.
IV
He studied a while in the school a Maynooth
Where master and scholar he did them confute [?]7He could measure the sea, the air or the land
John Cox [?] his praises to Francis McGann(continues on next page)
- Collector
- J. Flynn
- Gender
- Male
- Occupation
- Múinteoir
- Address
- Drumdart, Co. Leitrim
- Informant
- Owen Mc Gann
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Killamaun, Co. Leitrim