School: Cullahill (C.), Rathdowwney (roll number 13137)
- Location:
- Cullahill, Co. Laois
- Teacher: Mrs Baird
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0830, Page 291
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- (continued from previous page)with only one or two rooms, and very small windows as in those days if a window contained more than one pane of glass, they were heavily rated by the landlords of that time. Besides, they feared the attack of the "Black and White Foot." These men went about plundering houses, and taking what ever value they could find; so the people made their windows purposely small.
In a level plain, above the mountain, lies the pond they call "Glen Buckan."
"Glen Buckan of which the poet wrote"
"In sweet Cullohill, lies the lonely Glen Buckan
It lies quiet clear off cliff and stone,
Its hearthened plain and rushy sides,
Claim the wild bird for its own.
Its purple peat and tinted clff,
Where mountain torrents save.
The hazel claims the thrush's song,
In the quietude of the plain."
3.5.38
- Collector
- Lilly Daly
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cooloultha or Moneynamuck, Co. Kilkenny
- Informant
- Mr James Fitzpatrick
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Cullahill Mountain, Co. Laois
