School: Baile an Londraigh (B.) (roll number 14305)
- Location:
- Ballylanders, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Seán Ó Buachalla
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0512, Page 067
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- This was a favourite song in this locality years ago. It was composed by Darby Ryan of Bansha who heard from the spailpín the treatment Darby O Leary gave him at the Potato digging.
Darby O Leary was a terrible miser. He lived in Ballyfaskin in this parish. His two grandsons Tom and Pat live in the holding still. They are eking out a miserable existence, the place being mortgaged and worked by Walsh & Sons, merchants, Ballylanders.
I
One evening of late as I happened to stray
To the Galbally mountains I soon found my way
To dig the potatoes or work by the day
I hired with a Galbally farmer.
II
I asked him how far we were bound to go.
The night was dark and the north winds did blow
I was hungry and tired and my spirits were low
I could neither drink whiskey nor cordial.
III
He made me no answer but mounted his steed
To the Galbally Mountains he rode with great speed
I certainly thought that my heart it would bleed(continues on next page)
