School: Laragh (B.)
- Location:
- Larah, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: P. Ó Briain
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- (continued from previous page)boating & fishing.
Badgers have been trapped or shot as late as 1934. Foxes find a safe home & from the coverts awning the rocks & shrubbery make many a destructive raid for miles radius. Pheasants are still plentiful & due to preservation by present owner Hugh Clarke there is no fear of their extermination.
Colonel Saunderson owned this & was landlord of the district and to him the rents of the surrounding tenants were paid. His popularity was due to his noble & charitable disposition & the following poem was written in his honour & sung at many a local entertainment & country ceilidh.As I did stray on a summers evening
For speculation to take a view
I drew convenient to a crystal fountain
Where pinks & daisies by nature grew
It had been a seat of elevation
With its fertility whereon I stood
When some genius answered & loftily whispered
Its name & title is Ravenswood
