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School: Ballyhack Convent

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Ballyhack, Co. Wexford
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0874, Page 101

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  1. The Parish of St James and Dunbrody

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    Along the plain and many a fane,
    And castle grim and bold,
    That tells how the Norman and the Dane,
    Came here in days of old,
    Came here to plunder and despoil,
    Our dear old Innisfail,
    And raise there pirate flag above,
    The birth-right of the Gael

    Mr P.H. Hore's history of Dunbrody Abbey and the ancient Church ruins and Castles of St. James is a work of absorbing interest to any one who may peruse its pages. It is no doubt a monumental work that the
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