School: Drumatemple (B.) (roll number 7496)
- Location:
- Drumatemple, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Michael Quinn
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- (continued from previous page)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.- Collector
- Thomas Govern
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Cloonagrassan, Co. Roscommon