School: Ballyhack Convent

Location:
Ballyhack, Co. Wexford
Teacher:
An tSr Treasa
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    display so many of those excellent qualities that enoble mankind and won for us the proud title of the Model County.

    "As Nubian rocks and Ethiop's sand,
    Long drifting down the Nile
    Built up old Egypt's fertile land,
    For many a hundred miles,
    So pagan clans to Ireland came,
    And clans of Christendom,
    Yet joined their wisdom and their fame,
    To build a nation from.

    Patrick Cummins,
    Ballyhack
    Arthurstown
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Patrick Cummins
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Ballyhack, Co. Wexford