School: Fearth Mór (Brooklawn) (roll number 15508)
- Location:
- Fartamore, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Treasa, Bean Mhic Aonghusa
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0040, Page 0270
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- Long ago people here and there throughout the country were able to compose poems. There was a teacher by the name of Martin Courtney who taught in Lisaleen and he wrote a poem about his little school room:-
"I have a hundred pounds a year,
From her Majesty the Queen
A cottage in Brooklawn
And a school is lisaleen.My pupils they dud cherish me
My friends they were unseen,
When they shattered my little school,
In the plains of Lisaleen.There was another man named W. Rathegan who wrote a poem about The tenant and the Land Lord.
With fear and trembling and much resembling,
The serfs of Russia his tenants stood
With cap in hand.
"Och" in any land,
There was no such shivering since(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Donnchadha Ó hAinnín
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- Informant
- Denis Hannon
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- Male
