School: Calary, Bray
- Location:
- Calary Lower, Co. Wicklow
- Teacher: Bean de Faoite
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0912, Page 223
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- (continued from previous page)used to have a pack of hounds for the hunting and this poet made it up for some one to sing it in the house that the hunt would end. He composed these songs in English. This poet was a blacksmith. He could not read or write. The local people used to learn the songs when the poet used to teach them in the winter nights. There was no power attributed to Nicholas. The songs were very seldom sung because the old people who had learned them died and never taught them to the young ones because the hounds were gone out of the country and it was of no interest to them. But some of the old people are still living and they sing it round the fire in the winter nights.
Betty Molloy
Ballyraymond
Kilmacanogue
Information foregoing composition received from Mr Patrick Molloy
Do.
- Collector
- Betty Molloy
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballyremon Commons, Co. Wicklow
- Informant
- Mr Patrick Molloy
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 75
- Address
- Kilmacanoge, Co. Wicklow
