School: Ballyhack Convent
- Location:
- Ballyhack, Co. Wexford
- Teacher: An tSr Treasa
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0874, Page 209
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- (continued from previous page)those green bowers,
And plucked the gay garlands
from among the wild flowers
My childish companions, oh! where
have they fled?
And the dear ones I cherished,
alas! they are dead.When life's weary journey is ended
with me,
Oh! lay me to rest 'neath the
sycamore tree,
Where my forefathers sleep, near
the old chapel gate,
There, in silence, the sound of the
trumpet I will waitRamsgrange is never for once mentioned in the old records of Dunbrody. We never hear tell of it until in 1537 when Sir Osburne Itchingham gets possession of the estates under the grant of Henry viii.Ramsgrange contains seven hundred Irish Acres or something over one thousand two hundred statute(continues on next page)
