School: Páirc an Iarla (roll number 9303)
- Location:
- Rathpeak, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Ss. Ó Maonaigh
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- Rose Colleran, Rathpeak, Ballinasloe, Co. Roscommon.
Age 18 years
Farmer's daughter.1
O'er many a river bridged with ice,
Through many a vale with snow-drifts dumb,
Past quaking fen and precipice
The Princes of the North are come:
Lo these are they that year by year
Roll'd back the tide of England's war;
Rejoice, Kinsale; thy help is near
That wonderous winter march is o'er,
And thus they sang: " Tomorrow morn
Our eyes shall rest upon the foe;
Roll on, swift night in silence borne,
And blow, thou breeze of sunrise, blow:"
2
Blithe as a boy on march'd the host,
With droning pipe and clear-voiced harp;
At last above that southern coast
Rang out their steed's whinny sharp;
And up the sea-salt slopes they wound,
And airs once more of ocean quaffed,
Those frosty woods, the blue waves bound,(continues on next page)- Collector
- Rose Colleran
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 18
- Occupation
- Farmer's daughter
- Address
- Rathpeak, Co. Roscommon