School: Drong (2)
- Location:
- Drung, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Bean Uí Fháinín
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1022, Page 332
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- (continued from previous page)when it was hot. I heard Joe Mc. Keon say that men used to go round and carved things on stones.
- A Couple of years ago, when the Annalee River was being drained, there were some rocks to be blasted out. When they were blasting one rock, the man that was over the working-men picked up a stone sledge. They sent it away to the National Museum in Dublin.
Old Song or Rhyme
“Tom Brady's Grandfather was a poet in Drung.”
Tom Brady's Grandfather was a poet in Drung. One day he was walking the road, and he met another poet.
The other poet said.
"Whom in the world have ye sprung,|"
Or are ye that eloquent John Brady -
The bard of the Parish of Drung?"
John Brady said
"I am that eloquent John Brady!
The title I got in my youth.
From the parish of Drung I have sprung.
Where there is exercise, canon, and truth." - Collector
- Sylvia Lockington
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Bellanacargy, Co. Cavan
- Kilmacnoran got its name from a battle that was fought, and there was a man killed named Mac Horn, and that is how it got it's(continues on next page)
