School: Corlatty Carroll
- Location:
- Corlattycarroll, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Jas. Maguire
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1014, Page 220
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- You feeling hearted Christians of every degree
I claim your kind attention to sympathise with me
Until I relate the unhappy fate that lately has befell,
Seventeen souls upon Lough Sillan most hearts rendering to tell
II
It being on the twenty-fifth day of July upon the present year
In the parish school of Cullies it plainly does appear
The master and the mistress the monitor and the wife
Went to boat upon Lough Sillan where they lost their precious life
III
That morning the children's hearts were joyful at the news
When they heard on Lough Sillan's water they were going to have a cruise
They parted friends and parents not knowing for to be
That their pleasant day would(continues on next page)
