School: Drumshanbo (roll number 16846)
- Location:
- Droim Seanbhó, Co. Liatroma
- Teacher: Cathal Ó Buadhacháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0220, Page 308
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- (continued from previous page)Against the Leinster monarch.
And made him feel the smart of steel,
Used by the men of Connaught.
At a distance great, I here may state,
I saw the County of Mayo,
Whose people, to her patron saint,
The Lord did in a vision show.
Though now it's looked on with disdain, By men of consequence and pride
Though Kings and Princes to it came
In former days to be refined.
It being the place in '98,
Where General Humbert choose to land.
That place he found to be renowned,
And faithful in each cause to stand.
The great distance I really think
For fame surpasses ancient Troy.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Maggie Duffy
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Droim Seanbhó, Co. Liatroma
- Informant
- Pat Higgins
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Cluain Cuas, Co. Liatroma
