School: Knockbride (2)
- Location:
- Knockbride, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: T.J. Barron
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1015, Page 416
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- A verse from the "The Flower of Lough Sheelin."
Had I the wealth of all England,
I'd forfeit it all on that day.
And all for the Flower of Lough Sheelin,
The lovely sweet maid of Finea.
- A game played about seventy years ago at some wakes about Canningstown was as follows : - The company sat round closely in a ring on the floor one of the party being in the centre ; an article was then passed round the ring under the legs of the players and the person in the centre tried to discover it.
- When Cromwell came to take Muff Castle he shelled it fourteen days, failing to make a breach in the walls. A man named Dogherty then told where there was a keystone, and when this stone was fired at, a breach was made and the castle taken. As a reward for his services Dogherty got the townland of Corravillis. All the castles of Ireland were knocked down by Cromwell except the castle of Gormanstown.
