School: Castletowngeoghegan (C.) (roll number 2093)
- Location:
- Baile Chaisleán na nGeochagán, Co. na hIarmhí
- Teacher: C. Ní Chonaire
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0734, Page 513
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A Local Song
“The dear old house is standing yet. Where oft in days departed.”
I have sat with those I never ne'er forget
My school mates jovial-hearted.
Where life appeared a paradise of happiness extreme
For all was innocence and glee,
In the old School by the Stream.
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And nigh the town, its lifts its head beside the public way
And grace between a flowing bed fast rumbling to decay
An ivy porch it cannot boast to make it gay or sheen
Its bareness shames wild Autumn boast.
The old school by the Stream.
- Collector
- Mary Keegan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Killalea, Co. na hIarmhí
- Informant
- Mr Peter Hussey
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 50
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- An Droim Mór, Co. na hIarmhí