School: Naomh Eoin, Béal Easa
- Location:
- Foxford, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Oidí sa Chlochar
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- (continued from previous page)even foretold what has happened since.
"Roll on those bright and happy days
When we will have slated houses al,
In Straid we will have a grand new church
And the old one for a concert hall.
The boys won't need to go to England,
Work there in frost and snow.
They won't need to go to America
A no, no never more,
They can stay at home and till those lands
Rathruane and Knockmore"
After that he wrote about Tom King's bicycle that was stolen.
All that verse has come to pass. The farms were divided. The church was built, and now the old one serves as a concert hall, for plays and pictures.
Pat Lowe is now in America. He is from Knockmore and is now about forty five years of age.
- Collector
- Annie Roche
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Corlummin, Co. Mayo
