School: Ardlow
- Location:
- Ardlow, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: S. Mac Síomain
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1004, Page 089
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- (continued from previous page)If you search from the Arctic into the Antarctic
From the woods of our Hall to the Coast of Bellso
From Pekin in China to South Carolina
And famed Caledonia where monsters are found
This side of the Atlantic there's none as gigantic
From the Straits of Magellan to Cobabberdor
It's beyond explaination the bulk and formation
And strange inclinations of Tennyson's boar.
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“The following verses were written about the year 1824...”
The following verses were written about the year 1824 - and runs as a dramatic or picturesque view of Erin when such songs were counted treasonable.
One morning in May as I rambled
Through Billywood lands I did stray
By Flora the plains were enamelled
And Lambkins did sportingly play.
Down a lonely vale I did wander
Where I a fair damsel hath seen
On the banks of a winding meander
Comprising fair Shamrocks so green.The rainment she wore it as homely,
Her face it was blooming and fair,
She was virtuous, majestic and comely
The thoughts of her mind was sincere,
She was fairer than Herbey or Pandora
Or Flora, the fair flowery queen;(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
