School: Dunmanus, Toormore
- Location:
- Dunmanus East, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Helena Lucey
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0288, Page 131
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- When the spring-time tints the hedges
Ans when autumn fields are brown
'Tis a pleasant thing to wander
Through the fields of Aughadown,
And to gossip with the husbandman
Of matters grave and gay,
Reminiscent of folks and times
That long have passed away.By the roadway, in the meadow
Relic of the past is shown,
Hoary pile of crumbling ruins
All dismantled, ivy-grown,
Round which circles a quaint stone-wall
Workmanship of curious hands,
With the background of a story
Passing current in the land You have never heard the tale then.
But 'tis true beyond a doubt
How that stonewall one occasion
Tricked the bailiffs out and out
'Twas the park wall of Squire Beecher
And a man well-known was he
In the fox-hunt and the steeple chase
And old time chivalry.(continues on next page)
- Informant
- Mark Lucey
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 90
- Address
- Ratooragh, Co. Cork
