School: Stormanstown, Ardee (roll number 9371)
- Location:
- Baile an Aird, Co. Lú
- Teacher: P. Ó Ceallaigh
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- (continued from previous page)He never was afraid.
He bought Ben Turner's tricycle,
And rode it like a tar,
And paid him with a ram -skin-
My rattling Peter Kerr.
-John Kearney, Roseybrook, from his father's narration.
Kerr is pronounced locally, "Kär."
- Patrick Agnew died in Durham, England, in 1819 at the age of sixty. He contributed charades and rebuses to "Old Moore's Almanac." One of his poems is "Bess of Mullacloe."
Mullacloe is about a mile N. of the town of Ardee and quite near Roseybrook.Bess of Mullacloe.
I've seen the fuchsia and the rose,
The violet in full bloom,
I've seen the meadows gaily decked
With choicest gems in June,
But to my eyes appeared a pearl
More bright some time ago:
She was a humble tradesman's daughter
Who lived in Mullacloe.(continues on next page)
