{"id":531,"date":"2014-09-07T13:54:10","date_gmt":"2014-09-07T13:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/?p=531"},"modified":"2016-05-10T00:07:45","modified_gmt":"2016-05-10T00:07:45","slug":"saint-rynaghs-church-bell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/saint-rynaghs-church-bell\/","title":{"rendered":"Saint Rynagh\u2019s Church Bell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"St. Rynagh&#039;s Church Bell - Banagher, Co. Offaly\" width=\"660\" height=\"371\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LNvFzNWzXI8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The bell is ringing in the distance<br \/>\nAs to all it spells the time<br \/>\nI turn over so I can sleep<br \/>\nAnd curse its annoying chime.<br \/>\nAs it seems to ring forever<br \/>\nAs yet another chime I hear<br \/>\nEchoing around in my head<br \/>\nI pull the pillow over my ear&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I count the eleventh ring<br \/>\nThere is but one more to endure<br \/>\nBut if that bell is faulty&#8230;<br \/>\nThere may be even more&#8230;<br \/>\nFor many times when broken down<br \/>\nAnd when under repair<br \/>\nIt would ring and ring when being fixed<br \/>\nTo see was there anything more wrong there&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>But when it is left broken<br \/>\nOn the hour&#8230; you miss the chime!<br \/>\nAs night becomes morning here you can count&#8230;<br \/>\nBut now you cant tell the time!<br \/>\nAt least when it was working<br \/>\nThe time at night you could tell<br \/>\nEven though it was annoying still I miss<br \/>\nThe chime of Rynaghs church bell!!!<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2726\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2726\" style=\"width: 992px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/St-Rynaghs-Church-in-Banagher.jpg\" alt=\"St Rynaghs Church in Banagher, image from Google Streetview\" width=\"992\" height=\"354\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2726\" srcset=\"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/St-Rynaghs-Church-in-Banagher.jpg 992w, https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/St-Rynaghs-Church-in-Banagher-300x107.jpg 300w, https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/St-Rynaghs-Church-in-Banagher-768x274.jpg 768w, https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/St-Rynaghs-Church-in-Banagher-700x250.jpg 700w, https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/St-Rynaghs-Church-in-Banagher-332x118.jpg 332w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 992px) 100vw, 992px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2726\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">St Rynaghs Church in Banagher, image from Google Streetview<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The bell is ringing in the distance As to all it spells the time I turn over so I can sleep And curse its annoying chime. As it seems to ring forever As yet another chime I hear Echoing around in my head I pull the pillow over my ear&#8230; &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[439,523],"tags":[2360,718,723,1051,2823,2822,778,2821],"class_list":["post-531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-banagher","category-hope-and-faith","tag-banagher","tag-banagher-horse-fair","tag-banagher-on-the-shannon","tag-beannchor","tag-beannchor-na-sionna","tag-gallen-and-rynagh","tag-saint-rynagh","tag-st-rynaghs-church","column","twocol"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7EI4f-8z","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3000,"url":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/first-day-at-school\/","url_meta":{"origin":531,"position":0},"title":"First Day at School","author":"Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh","date":"20th July 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"I can't remember my first day at school in Saint Rynaghs in Banagher (of the famed Annual Horse Fair). 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