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Wallace was police superintendent in the Belmullet district in the old days. He had a very big nose and twas said he could smell out the "wash" for making poteen no matter how deeply twas hidden in the mountain.A priest in the district at the time - one Father Smyth and brother to the writer of "The Wile Rose of Lough Gill" made a song about Wallace's nose"Murder alive how that foghorn blowsEach sub in the district leaps up from reposeThe pigs that run round by itFly from the around of itSuch was the power of Wallace's Nose."

Wallace was police superintendent in the Belmullet district in the old days. He had a very big nose and twas said he could smell out the "wash" for making poteen no matter how deeply twas hidden in the mountain.A priest in the district at the time - one Father Smyth and brother to the writer of "The Wile Rose of Lough Gill" made a song about Wallace's nose"Murder alive how that foghorn blowsEach sub in tthe district leaps up from reposeThe pigs that run round by itFly from the around of itSuch was the power of Wallace's Nose."