School: Ardlow
- Location:
- Ardlow, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: S. Mac Síomain
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- (continued from previous page)Then by His orders you were headlong driven
And dismissed for ever from the gates of Heaven
Without resistance you were put to flight
And all was lost in that disastrous fight.
Then you and all the faithless Angels fell
Down a vast space to a place called Hell
There to remain in long perpetual woe
Endless pain in the dark shades below.
Come, skulking Satan, correct me now
But sir, you can't because you know not how
For I have truth and reason on my side
You have deception, vanity and pride.
And I maintain before your fatal fall
There was no such thing as any sin at all
This is a truth concludes and covers all. - The following verses were written about the year 1826. There was a farmer named John Tennyson who lived near the poet. He kept a boar that roamed at will about the roads. His tusks grew remarkably long, so long that they looked like horns. At the same time there was an Excise man or gauger named Breakey whose duty was chasing after stills and poteen makers, also taking up yarn in the markets. Yarn was dear at the time and for years he robbed the popular industry of the poor. He seized all the yarn he could lay hands on without restraint(continues on next page)
- Collector
- John Fitzsimmons
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ardlow, Co. Cavan
- Informant
- Michael Meenagh
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- c. 64
- Address
- Ballintlieve, Co. Meath