School: Paulstown (B.) (roll number 8244)
- Location:
- Paulstown, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: Máirtín Ó Conaill
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0862, Page 314
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- (continued from previous page)in the direction of Gouran to put the monks out of the abbey there. As he was going into Gouran he saw a tinker breaking stones on the side of the road and one of his men enquired which way he could get into the abbey. "What would you give me if I tell you" said the tinker. "If you tell us we will give you all the lands and castle." He directed them in backwards and Cromwell put out the monks and the tinker took up possession."The penal days" (a poem known locally)
They bribed the flock, they bribed the son
To sell the priest and rob the sire,
Their dogs were taught alike to run
Upon the scent of wolf and friar
Among the poor or on the moor,
Where hid the pious and the true;
While traitor knave and recreant slave
Had riches, rank and retinue
And exiled in those penal days
Our banners over Europe blaze."
