School: Ballymore (B.) (roll number 7443)
- Location:
- An Baile Mór, Co. na hIarmhí
- Teacher: P.J. Cooney
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0743, Page 294
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- There is a big house in Forgney about five miles to the North of Ballymore. A man by the name of King Harmon lives there. The avenue is a mile long and if you placed a rifle on the lock of the entrance gate and fired a shot you would hit the knocker on the hall door.
The people that built the house when they were finished wrote on the gate "What would not men and money do". One day a poor scholar was passing by, and when he saw this he wrote under it.
"All the men and all the money in Adam's race
Would not straighten the nose on Harmon's face".
Harmon had a disfigured nose
- Collector
- Matthew Kearney
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 13
- Address
- Muileann Míocháin, Co. na hIarmhí
- Informant
- Thomas Ryan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 45
- Address
- Newtown, Co. na hIarmhí
