School: St Columba's Abbey, Navan (roll number 882)
- Location:
- Navan, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Br. Abban O' Donoghue
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- I got the following poem from Mr J. McCormack of Giltown Robinstown parish.The Poem was written some 100 years ago by one Thomas Connor.
I saw the gransest fox hunt I ever saw before
They came to Ratnally covert
Where reynard bold was found
He darted Dungann
And oe'r Cloncullen then
And headed straight for Dunlough Kill -
In hopes to gain his den
And getting no admittance there.
He cunningly crept down
To that famous fix covert
Of lovely Philpotstown
I heathered to the huntsman bold
Kept clear up all the way
First came Thomas Barnewell
Who rode a splendid grey
Next his brother Richard
With Sam Reynolds of renown
Butler George the whipper in
And Marr of Calvinstown.
- Collector
- James Clarke
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Mr J. Mc Cormack
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Gilltown, Co. Meath
