School: Lough Gur, Kilmallock (roll number 7117)
- Location:
- Loughgur, Co. Limerick
- Teachers: T. Collins P. Ó Seaghdha
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- Owen Brosnan who lived in Lough Gur was a great poet. He died in 1908 but his poetry is still in the lips of the people. He wrote songs called Teampall Nuadh. He also composed a poem called The mule-hunt around Ballylandash. It was about Margaret Hayes who lived long ago and she could not pay her rent. The sherriff came to her but all he had to seize was a young jennet. The poem is as what follows:
A mull was soon started,
Dwyer left a roar,
That resembled the scream of a [?] boar,
The muel started off like renowned Galtee MóR
And coursed oer the plains of Ballylandash
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Then shakey old Carthy he backed up the wall
And said if he slipped that his creeches would fall
The mule took them over the wildest of plac-
Oer hedges + ditches + Quarrys + drains
The gates were all opened by the fairest of maids for the mu- hunt around Ballylandash
- Collector
- Pauline Flynn
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Loughgur, Co. Limerick
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- Mrs Flynn
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Loughgur, Co. Limerick
