School: Dunree
- Location:
- Dunreagh, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Maighréad Condún
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0687, Page 404
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- Local Poets
There are a few local poets in this district though they are little known and did not write very much.
Patrick Genahty, who was principal of this school, was born in Dullech in 1860 and came to Ashbourne in 1890.
He died in the year 1936 and is buried in Killegland churchyard.
He wrote the poem in "Moore's Alamnac" every year.
This is the sort of thing he contributed.
"The world around
is just the same,
As in grandfathers day
The hills and the vales
Still hold their owns,
The flowers are just
as gay,
But that we ourselves are changing, we
really must allow,(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Dympna Condon
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cookstown, Co. Meath
- Informant
- Maureen Kearns
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 14
- Address
- Baltrasna, Co. Meath
