School: Dún Drongáin (B.) (roll number 7231)
- Location:
- Drangan, Co. Tipperary
- Teachers: Diarmuid Ó Gormáin Labhrás Ó Gormáín
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0557, Page 271
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- Pierce Skehan was born at Knockura, Drangan at the end of the eighteenth century (His nephew lived there until quite recently (RIP))
He emigrated to New York and was head of the Fenians in Long Island. He married a Jewess named Maryanne Dunbar. This is the only poem of his which I have come across in a girl's school copy book who has now emigrated.
- "Drangan River"In my own beloved isle of the shamrock and the daisy
Through one of the vales of far-famed Tipperary
A rivulet flows that I love to remember
From Tubber-daheen I can trace every quiver(continues on next page)
