School: Stormanstown, Ardee (roll number 9371)

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   Also the thrush is in each bush in lovely Edmondstown.
   (5)
   When you draw near it's east frontier,
   view Mister Brennan's hall
   The great and wise it does surprise, it's
   lofty granite walls;
   If king or queen this structure seen, they'd
   call forth throne and crown
   And dwell for sport in Brennan's court
   in lovely Edmondstown.
   (6)
   I'll make an end and stop my pen, I
   can't range through it's ways.
   There isn't one since Moore is gone that
   could this place half praise;
   I sorely grieve that he don't live, for
   with laurels he would crown
   And spread the fame in golden theme of
   lovely Edmondstown.
   Seán Kelly, Cardistown, Ardee from the narration of Mrs Callan, do., do. (See P.1)

   Brennan's Court, now owned by James Brady, who married Miss Brennan, is a public-house on the Ardee-Carrickmacross road. The title and the "granite walls" are poetic imagery.

   

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   History Edit

   Topics

   1. genre
      1. poetry
         1. folk poetry (~9,504)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Seán Kelly

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Cardistown, Co. Louth

   Informant

   Mrs Callan

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Cardistown, Co. Louth