School: Killummod
- Location:
- Killummod, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Tadhg Ó Bhioscáin
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- XML School: Killummod
- XML Page 317
- XML “Johnny From <span class="exact">Kilmore</span>”
- XML “Farewell to Cloonfad”
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- (continued from previous page)He drilled and taught good exercise
To six and forty score
While each man bowed submissively
To Johny from Kilmore.
IV
And now he has left us lonely
And gone oer the Western main
He could not bear the preaching
Of those lying thieves again
By their denunciation
They disorganised our corp
And left us far from him we loved
Brave Johny from Kilmore. - The following song was written about Cloonfad and its neighbourhood. Cloonfad is a townland in Aughrim Parish but borders Drumlion Parish. It is about five miles from Carrick-on-Shannon.(continues on next page)