School: Cluain Cátha (roll number 2243)
- Location:
- Cloncaw, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: P. Ó Hanluain
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0961, Page 197
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- Supplied by M Kelly of Drumbanagher Glaslough who heard it from an old man in district who is now dead.The Green Woods of Truagh:Excuse me good people,
My talents so feeble,
I dare not presume in praise of Tyrone
Yet part of that county where I have frequented,
To find out its equal I think there is one.
It’s just and sincere they were I declare,
In love and in friendship with me they have been,
The fault was my own for leaving Tyrone
And returning again to the Truagh Woods so green.On the 14th of May it being a fine day,
In the year of our Lord 1814,
From fair Annaloughan I then took my way,
Where twenty long years before I had been,(continues on next page)
- Informant
- M. Kelly
- Gender
- Unknown
- Address
- Drumbanagher, Co. Monaghan
