School: Dunmore, Kilkenny (roll number 4331)
- Location:
- Dunmore, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: M. Ó Leathlobhair
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0863, Page 258
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- (continued from previous page)bu guirid gir d'airigh mé an post arís bhí an t-eai ms an áit ceud na ach mor cuadas th-ar n-ais go dtí é mur bhéadh eagla air. Do shuidh nié scós ré sgíth crann dáire, an t-aon ceain amhaíni bhí ain (1911)
agus d'ran mé ain ag cisteact bis an smólac úd mar ba é an ceolteóur is binne duir aialas riamh
bhí an áir con uaigneach san nac mbeiteá tuirseac de go deo.
Shí mé gur ro luath thaínig an oidhthe an lú san.The Lark sings on the ground When??
I once visited Ormond Wood on a Summers evening. Ormond Wood is in the Dunmore Park near Kilkenny.
It is a Park with many small such woods, called in other parts merely clumps and the local tradition here has it that these woods are arranged exactly as a model of Waterloo to commemorate that famous victory of Wellington.
Some scion of the Ormond House had helped in the victory so we are told anyhow.
Well in the evening I heard the song of a lark(continues on next page)
- Informant
- John Nolan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 35
- Address
- Dunmore, Co. Kilkenny
