School: Cúl na Heórna, Carraig na Siúire (roll number 4136)
- Location:
- Coolnahorna, Co. Waterford
- Teacher: Mairéad, Bean Uí Aiseadha
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- Two poets lived in our district long ago. Their names were Robert Weldon and Michael Francis Sheehan. Robert Weldon was born in the Parish of Kilrossanty near the Saw Mill on the River Mahon. He worked in the Saw Mill cutting timber. He was a poet by nature. He could compose a poem on the spur of the moment.
All his poems were composed in the language These are the names of the poems which he composed
Tearga na nGaedheal
Musgail a Bhanba
Gleann na Machan
Dán don abb i Cnoch Mellerí
An Bhean Rochaidhe
Robert Weldon got a gold medal as a prize at the Munster Feis for his poem "Musgail a Bhanba" He was called the "Poet of the Comeraghs.
He died in 1928 in his(continues on next page)- Collector
- Nicholas Butler
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Kilclooney, Co. Waterford