School: Drumatemple (B.) (roll number 7496)

Location:
Drumatemple, Co. Roscommon
Teacher:
Michael Quinn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0261, Page 091

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    filled with mirth and glee,
    There too could see the bogey wheels.
    I am certain they were in loath.
    For to bring the perpetrator.
    That dead and damned old goat,
    The chairman of the Roscommon County Council.
    Long life to him I say.
    John FitsGibbon and his witness appeared in splender and array.
    Clancy King's Counsellor. A member of Parliament,
    defeated them and vigoursly did quote
    My Lord the sad disaster , Was maliciously caused by a goat.
    At Ros. Summer Assizes.
    On July the 11th Day.
    On the evi/endence given the Judge did say.
    "A goat has caused a sad disaster on the Midland Great Western Line.
    On the evidence given I dismiss.
    The case dismissed a second time.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. time
      1. historical periods by name (~25)
        1. the great famine (~4,013)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Thomas Govern
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Cloonagrassan, Co. Roscommon