School: Carrigbyrne (roll number 4479)
- Location:
- Carrickbyrne, Co. Wexford
- Teacher: Máire Cuirtéis
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- In ninety-six as the moon she fixed
Her beams o'er Scullabogue.
The twinkling stars and the planet Mars
Were shining o'er each grove.
Where the Hessian brutes had bit the dust
And Cromwell's crew were slain
Where yeomen fled and left their dead
In the Ballyshannon Lane.I sat for a while upon the style
At the church of old bouridale
One night in June when a silvery moon
O'er the Rebel's' grave did sail,
The scenes of '98 that I relate, passed
through my youthful brain,(continues on next page)