School: Baile Idir Dhá Abhainn (roll number 13196)
- Location:
- Riverstown, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Ml. Mac Lochlainn
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- Several people in this district can write poetry some perhaps better than others and strange to say a great number of them do not care about publishing what the write. One of the best of the local poets whose poems were made public is Patrick Higgins of Ross. He wrote several poems one being "The death of John Stenson" as follows.
On the 29th October 1908
On a grazing ranch at Riverstown
John Stenson met his fate
He little dreamt his days were spent
When entering the field
Until his comrades and himself
Were quickly forced to yield.
The murderer who shot him
He surely took his aim
Poor Stenson stood in range of him
And was shot right through the brain
The blood hounds were so thirsty
Their bullets showed no lack(continues on next page)- Collector
- Chris Taheny
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Riverstown, Co. Sligo