School: Crury (roll number 3134)
- Location:
- Creevy, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Martin Keegan
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1029, Page 369
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- (continued from previous page)Southampton and a year later was awarded a “Civil List” pension. His best know poems are: “The winding banks of Erne” which deals with his native town. The Goblin child” which deals with a haunted room in Ballyshannon barracks. Four ducks on a pond. “Abbey Assaroe”. The Fairies and many others. He died in England but before he died he requested that his body be brought back. His body was cremated and his ashes were brought to Ballyshannon and placed on the bridge and covered with a marble slab. This reminds the people that:
Here once he roamed a happy boy.
Along the winding banks of Erne
And now please god with finer joy.
A fairer world his eyes discern.
- Collector
- Patrick J. Gillispie
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Sheegys, Co. Donegal
