School: Baile Idir Dhá Abhainn (roll number 13196)
- Location:
- Baile idir Dhá Abhainn, Co. Shligigh
- Teacher: Ml. Mac Lochlainn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0180, Page 129
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- (continued from previous page)is about sixty years of age. He composed the following
On the 29th October 1908
On a grazing ranch at Riverstown
John Stenson met his fate
He little dreamt his days were spent
When entering the field
Until his comrades and himself
Were quickly forced to yield.
The bloodhounds were so thirsty
The cowards showed no lack
They did not value human life
To spare the bullock's back
The murderer that shot him
He surely took his aim
Poor Stenson stood in range of him
And was shot right through the brain
The cowards showed no mercy
And well they knew he fell
The bullets showered around him
Like blazing shot and shell
He's dead, the noble and the brave
But his spirit still lives on
Among the men of Riverstown,
In History and in song.(continues on next page)
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- Agnes Higgins
- Gender
- Female
