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School: Ros Cré (B.) (roll number 1594)

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Roscrea, Co. Tipperary
Teacher:
D. Nash
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0548, Page 204

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    (continued from previous page)
    Farewell unto you sweet
    A place I'll see no more.
    I now must leave my parents,
    Who then I did adore,
    For the shooting of a kite on a November's night
    That flew through Ballaghmore.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. poetry
        1. folk poetry (~9,504)
    2. time
      1. historical periods by name (~25)
        1. the great famine (~4,013)
    3. place-space-environment
      1. land management (~4,110)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Seamus Dynan
    Gender
    Male
    Informant
    Mrs Cahill
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Railway View, Co. Tipperary