School: Mercy Convent, Newtownforbes (roll number 8546)
- Location:
- Newtown Forbes, Co. Longford
- Teacher: Sr. M. Brainín
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0757, Page 008
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“The name of my village is Newtownforbes and my Parish is Clonguish and barony Longford.”
(continued from previous page)IV
Especially my comrades , dear,
They give my heart full sore.
But I hope for to return,
And so see them all once more.
V
There is lovely Castle Forbes,
The place of high renown,
You could not get a math for it,
From Moy to the hill of Down.
VI
The black man at the Hall Door stands,
The two ponds then in view,
The deer and fox, swans, and pea-cock,
And lovely cockatwo.
VII
And so the Longford Cathedral,
With its royal chimney bells,
It is a splendid building,
Just opposite St Mels.
VIII
The Convent too is nice to view,
Upright, straight and tall,
The Court-house and distillery,
And the Camlin water falls.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Annie Toher
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Newtown Forbes, Co. Longford
- Informant
- Mrs Burke
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 51
- Address
- Ballagh, Co. Longford