School: Clonmacnoise
- Location:
- Clonmacnoise, Co. Offaly
- Teacher: P. Ó Maolmhuaidh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0811, Page 198
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- (continued from previous page)every side
To beat back those vultures as you see,
To beat back the bloody peelers and the black Artillary
3.
Long life to the Seven Churches girls
They stood their trial so sound
The Came from that Holy Place
Where a Holy Saint was found,
St Ciaran built his holy Church and there he did reside,
On a bit of Consecrated land,
Down by the Shannon side.
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About two days after this fight all the people were summoned and they all had to go to court and only for a Protestant man who lived near Ferbane they would all have to go to jail.
- Informant
- Pat Norton
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 62
- Address
- Tullaghbeg, Co. Offaly
