School: Mianaigh (roll number 10565)
- Location:
- Moyny Lower, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Eibhlis Ní Shúilleabháin
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- (continued from previous page)were very small, and a small window high up on each gable admitted light to the "loft". The floors were usually earthen, but occasionally flagged.
The people were generally poor, as their farms were small and the district was more thickly populated then than now. The ruins of the old houses are still to be seen. Most of the old people knew Irish but as very few of them are alive now, Irish is not spoken.
Below are the words of a song composed locally.
- It was down by a clear crystal river
Where the sweet purling water flows
It was there I beheld this fair damsel
As her fair cheeks they blushed like the rose.
Said I, "Your green meadows are charming
And your guardian I'll be if you choose"
She said "Sir, I don't want a guardian(continues on next page)
