School: Clochar na Trócaire, Drangan (roll number 7232)

Location:
Drangan, Co. Tipperary
Teacher:
An tSr. M. Gráinne
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0556, Page 224

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0556, Page 224

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  1. (continued from previous page)
    was looked forward to
    by the youth and beauty
    of the country around as
    a place specially reserved
    for them to display all
    the favours which kind
    nature endowed them
    with.
    The colleens in best "Bib
    and tucker" best hat and
    feather, congregated in the
    fulsome glow of their
    charming loveliness, using
    all their innocent arts to
    captivate the rustic swains
    who thronged the "green",
    on different phases of buss-
    iness and pleasure bent.
    Athletes, many miles asunder
    attended to meet the
    challenges distributed many
    (continues on next page)
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