{"id":2328,"date":"2015-10-01T21:20:26","date_gmt":"2015-10-01T21:20:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/?p=2328"},"modified":"2015-10-01T21:20:26","modified_gmt":"2015-10-01T21:20:26","slug":"saintjohnstown-so-beautiful-a-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/saintjohnstown-so-beautiful-a-name\/","title":{"rendered":"Saintjohnstown – So Beautiful A Name"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Saint<\/a>
Saint Johns Church of Ireland Ballinalee. Image from their Facebook<\/a><\/strong> page.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

My mother grew up outside the Longford village of Ballinalee. She always said she preferred the English name on it, St. Johnstown… called after the Church of Ireland church, built on the reputed site of a Greyfriars monstry dedicated to St, John the Baptist…<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Little village, from here her family came
\nSt. Johns Town… so beautiful a name
\nMy mother thought, though with her I did not agree
\nI saw the pastoral beauty she did not in the Irish name Ballinalee
\nTown of the Ford of the Calves – its as if they before me stand
\nThe calves drinking without a care I understand
\nBeauty is in the ear of the beholder, but a sound is a name
\nEveryone has their favourites for the place from which they came.
\nIt was here St. Samhthann took Clonbroney after fiery vision seen
\nBy Fuinnech who stepped aside, who heretofor abbess had been
\nNeath the shadow of Cairn Hill, from which morning sun towards the island shadows cast
\nWhere Maeve was slain by slingshot slung cheese in the legendary past…<\/p>\n

I grew up where we moved to a few months after I was born
\nOn Shannon banks, a mile above, where the devil himself was beat its said one morn,
\nBanagher on the Shannon – Fort Falkland – or just plain Banagher Town
\nPocket Borough bore all three names since the days before the Crown
\nPerhaps all should be known by all names so history is not lost
\nBy fads, crazes and laziness to the ether of ignorance knowledge is tossed!<\/p>\n

Reference<\/strong><\/p>\n

St. Samthann<\/a>
\nSt. Johnstown Pocket Borough<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My mother grew up outside the Longford village of Ballinalee. She always said she preferred the English name on it, St. Johnstown… called after the Church of Ireland church, built on the reputed site of a Greyfriars monstry dedicated to St, John the Baptist… Little village, from here her family …<\/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":[439,168,23],"tags":[115,723,2449,2451,42,2450,2448,2447,2446],"class_list":["post-2328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-banagher","category-irish-legend","category-north-longford","tag-ballinalee","tag-banagher-on-the-shannon","tag-fort-falkland","tag-fuinnech","tag-longford","tag-placenames","tag-saintjohnstown","tag-st-johnstown","tag-st-samhthann","column","twocol"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7EI4f-By","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3473,"url":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/village-of-the-three-generals\/","url_meta":{"origin":2328,"position":0},"title":"Village of the Three Generals","author":"Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh","date":"5th January 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"St Johnstown, or Ballinalee From where the three generals hail Monroe, Wilson and McEoin Two Scotsmen, one of the Gael. 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