School: Tráigh Omna (roll number 13092)
- Location:
- Drishanemore, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Mícheál Ó Dálaigh
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- (continued from previous page)The Master Captain paid the toll at death's mysterious gate
He's sleeping neath Northampton soil in Massachusetts State
Were he within his native land awaiting judgements' dawn
In Sherkins shade would friends had laid the Captain of DrishaneGod rest you Captain Casey you've not lived nor worked in vain
Your teaching finds expression in the movement of Sinn Féin
Where ere fair Carbery's cloud capped hills the shades of night have drawn
Fond tales are told of Casey bold, and the Fenians of Drishane.The above lines were written down from the dictation of her Mother Mrs Daniel Regan, by a pupil of Tragumna National School. Mrs Regan lives in Drihanebeg Skibbereen Co Cork and heard the above sung by her fatherTom Casey was School master in Drishanemore School Skibbereen Co Cork at the time of the Fenian RisingDrishanemore School was abandoned when the present school Tragumna was opened in September 1871.In olden times there were two Schools in Drishanemore which townland is about three miles due South of the town of Skibbereen. There is a dolmen to be seen in a field in this townland.- Informant
- Mrs Daniel Regan
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Drishanebeg, Co. Cork