School: Grangegeeth (roll number 2630)
- Location:
- Grangegeeth, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Seósaimhín, Bean Uí Dhubhghaill
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- (continued from previous page)This poem was written by Richard Halligan:-
You feeling creatures as you draw near,
All my story I will let you hear
About a phantom that appeared to me
From thy dark tomb of eternity.
The other night and I going home
I met the spectre as he did roam,
It is the eleventh hour the spirit said
When all are silent and long in bed.
And you are a rambler without a cause
Don't fear coercion or martial laws.
He stood before me with fiery glare,
And with blood shed eyes at me did stare
I grasped my cudgel and held it tight
For I was intended to have a fight,
My guardian Angel stood by my side
To win the battle once more I tried.
But I bid farewell to the fairy ghost
And never again shall I bray or boast.
- Collector
- Teresa Callan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Grangegeeth, Co. Meath
- Informant
- Thomas Callan
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 67
- Address
- Grangegeeth, Co. Meath
