School: Ballymore (C.) (roll number 7444)
- Location:
- Ballymore, Co. Westmeath
- Teachers: K. Kavanagh Mrs Kearney
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0743, Page 408
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- To sing the praises of Ballymore, I will tell to you this night,
I pray you pay attention to these few lines I write
Where the boys and the girls are all cheerful and the grandest place in all Westmeath is Ballymore
First begin at Cluna where Tommy Timbs does dwell
Mullaghcloe and sweet Doniel, are the places I love best.
From the hill of sweet Doniel, you can see that splendid lake.
If I were a photography, its pictures I would take,
Gold letters I would print on the lake of Ballymore
I'm not forgetting Killenboy, its a pity that I should
There was once a nice girl there, and in Dicard now she dwells
Her father, being a wealthy man, and of him I can say no more.
He's the biggest catlle-dealer that comes in to Ballymore
The view from Templepatrick is a glorious sight to see
Where the mistle thrush and blackbird is singing on each tree
Their music it would fill, that little town of Moyvore(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary Mc Auley
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Jimmy Kelly
- Relation
- Grandparent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 73
- Address
- Maddadoo, Co. Westmeath
