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School: Ballyfin, Mountrath (roll number 15537)

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Ballyfin, Co. Laois
Teacher:
Seosamh Mac Giolla Fhionáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0833, Page 102

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    now in Redcastle. Brigid Dunne went to Dublin. Kirwans went to America. Bowes died. Brophys died. Philips died, and Keatings died.
    About half the land is a bog. The rest of the land grows good crops of, beet wheat, oats, barley, turnips, and potatoes. Here is a song connected with the parish.
    It was on last Sunday evening.
    I drove through Cappinrush.
    On all her slumbering branches.
    There merrily sang the thrush.
    The partridge and the pleasent
    Wildduck and waterhen
    All nature clad in silence
    Beseeches Ballyfin.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
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    Topics
    1. place-space-environment
      1. local lore, place-lore (~10,595)
    Language
    English
    Location
    Knocknakearn, Co. Laois
    Collector
    Maureen Deegan
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Knocknakearn, Co. Laois