Scoil: St Peter's, Phibsboro

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1. Local Song

   “The Hawthorn grows, the brook runs by”

   

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   Commemorating certain characters, to wit, a schoolmaster, a well-to-do farmer, and a step-dancer. These people lived in the Ballymackney district, Parish of Killany Co. Monaghan. The Period is not definitely fixed, the author one Callan was a local reporter for the "United Irishman". The song was the joint product of two rhymes, the other being a man named Ford whose brother was a curate in Doneghmoyne Parish somewhere around the ? of the last century:-

   The song was known by old residents in my native townland, Taplagh some twenty years ago.

   "The Hawthorn grows, the brook runs by where stands the rustic College,
   Where I from poor Ned Smith received my scanty store of knowledge.

   But now Ford rest his guiltless soul
   Tis long that I'm to mourn,
   He lies beyond in Inishkeen
   Not far from Ballinavourn

   Ned Fagan was a fine young man
   A lady might admire
   And many a jig I have (I've) seen dance

   (leanann ar an chéad leathanach eile)

   

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