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School: Ballymahon (B.) (roll number 12690)

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Ballymahon, Co. Longford
Teacher:
Eugene Conway
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0751, Page 237

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    Here is a piece of poetry written by "Leo"Casey in which Ballymahon is mentioned.
    A gray old bridge, what shadows slide
    Down from thy battlemonts so lone?
    A home upon the white hillside
    Are all the owners dead and gone?
    "Dead and gone a voice replies
    Low from the cascades echoed song
    Dead and gone--but in the skies
    They mingle with the seraph throng
    The old white song, the island brown
    The bridge of Ballymahon town.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. poetry
        1. folk poetry (~9,504)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Harry Flood
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Ballymahon, Co. Longford