School: An Clochar, Cara Droma Ruisc
- Location:
- Carrick-on-Shannon, Co. Leitrim / Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: An tSr. Emerentia
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0209, Page 055
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“As I roved out one evening, down by the river side...”
As I roved out one evening, down by a river side, I heard a couple talking as they walked hand in hand, and to hear their conversation I eagerly did stand, and to hear their conversation I drew nigh to a bush, till at length he said “my charmer I thought I had my wish”.
“Ah then Johnny, dearest, Johnny what is that you mean?”
“Ah then Nancy, lovely Nancy, the truth I do explain, to become a Roman Catholic as I have now described, for I see that you’r a heretic that never was baptized.”(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Kathleen Carr
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Carrick-on-Shannon, Co. Leitrim / Co. Roscommon
- Informant
- Mrs Margaret Mulvey
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Carrick-on-Shannon, Co. Leitrim / Co. Roscommon