School: Raheen (roll number 14117)
- Location:
- Raheen, Co. Wexford
- Teacher: Thomas Mahon
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- The Bally-Shannon Lane.In ninety-six, as the moon she fixed
Her beams o'er Scullabogue,
The twinkling stars and planet Mars
Were shining o'er each grove.
Where the Hessian brutes had bit the dust,
And Cromwell's crew were slain,
Where the yeomen fled and left their dead
In Ballyshannon Lane.I sat for a while upon a stile,
At the Church of old Courthoyle
One night in June when the silvery moon
O'er the rebels grave did sail.
The scenes of '98 that I'll relate,
Passed through my youthful brain,
And I prayed for the dead from Raheen that bled
In Ballyshannon Lane.I passed Jim Moore's, and the old forge door
Where old Evoy forged the pike,
The night was kind, no rain or wind
Blew over hill or dyke.
At Furlongs's gate I chanced to wait,
And thought how this youth was slain,
The Hessian crew, this lad they slew,(continues on next page)- Collector
- James Martin
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Raheen, Co. Wexford
- Informant
- Mr Paddy Martin
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 71
- Address
- Raheen, Co. Wexford