School: Bealach (roll number 5811)
- Location:
- Ballagh, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Domhnall Ó Daltúin
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0258, Page 142
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- (continued from previous page)Sean Hanly being astir betimis
Looks with prophetic eye,
For signs portents towards Rathcline
And scans the earth and sky.The cooper soone being sore alarmed
By what to him appears
Runs all agog into his dame,
To tell here what he fears."Dear partour mine, thou must admit,
The time we've been together
Tro' thick and thin I've bought thee safe,
In fair and stormy weather.From marks or signs thou canot not see,
I say in sore dismay.
In Shannon's wave, we must not risk
To wet our pails this day.The yorlin sang all yester eve,
A sad and plantive song,
This morn I see the frogs and toads,
Have fled the reeds among.Simon Hanly in Kilgefin sits,(continues on next page)
