The song Bonny Portmore is about the cutting of the old oaks in Ireland for ship building and war. In this song it focuses on the Great Oak of Portmore. Is it known what ship this oak became part of, and if so did the ship serve a long career on the seas? Did it just disappear into the wood lot to be lost amongst all the other lumber?
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