School: Shelbaggan Convent

Location:
Shelbaggan, Co. Wexford
Teacher:
An tSr M. Breandán
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0874, Page 047

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0874, Page 047

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  1. The Haggard of old, that gave its rents and contributions of sheep etc to the reps. of the Abbots of Dunbrody, is there still and like the other portions of the Dunbrody estates, it holds a prosperous peasantry "that knows or fears no Lord save the Lord on high"
    But, where is the ancient Ballymadder
    Echo answers where ! There is not a vestage of its people, or their homes to be found, the whole village was wiped out by Chicester, the "arch villain of the Plantations" to make way for a Scotch planter.
    When Goldsmith returned to his native Auburn, he found only one solitary being out of the joyous crowd that he left there in his early youth and this old matron was
    "The sad historian of the pensive plain"
    but in Ballymadder there was not even one left to tell the tale of the vanished homesteads where the children played and where the grown ups made merry
    (continues on next page)
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Language
    English
    Informant
    Patrick Cowman
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Ballyhack, Co. Wexford