School: Lisdoonan
- Location:
- Lisdoonan, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: S. Mac an Éanaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0930, Page 156
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- (continued from previous page)different beasts and when he turned himself into the shape of a fish St. Patrick said " as thou art let thou remain " and he was thrown into the lake and is supposed to be still there and will be there till the day of judgment guarding two pots of gold. Men of the district have often tried to drain the lake but something has always hobbled them. There are many beautiful songs made about Donaghmoyne and a few lines of one of them are:
Where Manaan owned that castle
In Ireland's ancient days,
He was a chief who ruled that place
Among those woods and braes.
It was in John Martin's rasan
Where Owen Roe and his men did join
And the cannon ball its sound did fall
Through lovely Donaghmoyne.
A most noticeable thing in our district is the number of large newly built slated houses.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Teresa Finegan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Lisnagunnion, Co. Monaghan
- Informant
- Mary Burns
- Relation
- Grandparent
- Gender
- Female
