School: Clochar na Trócaire, Buirgheas Uí Luighdheach (roll number 3486)
- Location:
- Borrisoleigh, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: An tSr. M. Oilibhéir
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0544, Page 068
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- (continued from previous page)Twould remind you of old Knocknagour
In Kicham's story told
To see brave and manfully
There's many a Matt the Thrasher
Among the lads of Fair Ileigh.
If you wonder up the green
hill slope
'Mid the pure and balmy air
you can view the rolling plain below
So lovely, bright and fair
Here nature gives her richest gift
To every bush and tree
And spreads the wild flowers over the vale
In lovely, Fair Ileigh.
Yonder stands the little church
The graveyard all around
Where five of Ireland's nobel dead
Sleep in the holy ground
There's three green graves sad. I ween
No monumants have they
where rest in peace the ashes
Of young Russell, Bourke and Shear(continues on next page)
