School: Shanvough, Sráid na Cathrach (roll number 15827)
- Location:
- Shanavogh West, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Seosamh Ó hAodha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0625, Page 007
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- About four miles south of Miltown and two miles east of Mullagh in the townland of Doonogan there lived a man Matthew Hehir, who was a kind of a poet. On one occasion while drunk on the road home from Miltown the police came on him and arrested him. To commemorate the event he wrote a poem dealing with the event and comparing himself to a sow pig.
I
As the Peelers were out one night of late in Patrol
Three miles from the town they found a sow on the road
They quickly surrounded her and out they thundered an oath
That they'd fine her a crown or to "pound" she should instantly go. II
And with harmonious sound the sow she quietly bespoke
"I'm a delicate sow and the 'pound' would cripple my bones"
I'm not littered three hours and there's a house full of sucklings at home
And I'm out of your power, I'm bound with a ring in the nose". III
"In anguish I moan to go home to my young
My udder is sore and 'tis home I must instantly run
I long for the boar although my litter is young
And I kept in close, you roguish villains to shun.(continues on next page)
