School: Carrigbyrne (roll number 4479)
- Location:
- Carrickbyrne, Co. Wexford
- Teacher: Máire Cuirtéis
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0882, Page 409
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- (continued from previous page)Up the steep and rocky road.
To where the fraughan bushes,
An excess of berries showed.
While other youths and maidens
To the summit would adjourn
To view the beauteous landscape
From the Rock of Carrigbyrne.iv
In Winter when our work was done
No moments would we lose.
But hasten to John Evoy's forge,
To hear the latest news,
And listen to the great debate
On Grattan, Sheil and Curran.
There were literary giants,
'Neath the Rock of Carrigbyrne.v
And Jimmie King the Fiddler,
How we'd gaze on him with awe,
When he'd take his ancient fiddle,
And the bow across it draw.
The boys and girls in patience,
Would sit waiting for their turn.
To dance the "Star of Munster"
At the Rock of Carrigbyrne.(continues on next page)
