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The little lake, water lapping, little future
\nLocal lads, big dreams and ambitions
\nFar away fields were greener than the stoney ones of home,
\nOn America they set their heart as their mission.<\/p>\n

New land, new opportunities, they built a new little town
\nDone well, it grew beyond that from which they came
\nWhere they had played where swans wings beat the waters of the Corrib
\nAlso of the little lake of the village to which they gave their new city its name.<\/p>\n

\"Ducks<\/a>
Ducks on the River Corrib at Menlo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Menlo Park was a “big house” in the Galway village of Menlo – “Mionloch” meanling “Little Lake” in Irish – from where two natives of the village emigrated to America and founded a city of the same name over there. Facebook have some of their server farms and HQ in Menlo Park in California, showing what the small creation of men who overcame lack of opportunity with ambition can become, way beyond even their dreams. A plaque to them was erected in the village at the cemetery by the pier where their ancestors and relations are buried. Its little known claim to fame is that it was where Google was founded way back in the infancy of the modern internet<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"Plaque<\/a>
Plaque to the founders of the American city of Menlo Park which is the HQ of Facebook, and also the site of the foundation of Google. Two men emigrated there from the small County Galway Village of Menlo, and named the new settlement they founded after the “big house” of their native village.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The little lake, water lapping, little future Local lads, big dreams and ambitions Far away fields were greener than the stoney ones of home, On America they set their heart as their mission. New land, new opportunities, they built a new little town Done well, it grew beyond that from …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1651,90],"tags":[1676,391,2345,1679,1675,1674,1680,12,1678,1677,440],"class_list":["post-1467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gander-around-galway","category-walking-verses","tag-ducks","tag-galway","tag-ireland","tag-lough-corrib","tag-melo-park","tag-menlo","tag-mionloch","tag-nature","tag-river-corrib","tag-swan","tag-walk","column","twocol"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7EI4f-nF","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4545,"url":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/mother-duck\/","url_meta":{"origin":1467,"position":0},"title":"Mother Duck","author":"Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh","date":"11th September 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"As part of the #twistednurseryrhyme challenge from \"Pandora's Box of Horrors\" and \"We PAW Bloggers\" groups on Facebook, where a nursery rhyme is reworked to a morbid plot... 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