School: Lisball
- Location:
- Lisball, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: S. O' Doherty
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1009, Page 156
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“He left a place called Enniskee on Saturday afternoon”
Song
I
He left a place called Enniskeen
On Saturday after noon,
Bound for the town of Carrickmacross
That place he entered soon,
The villain took his lodging there
But no one knew his plan
He left on Saturday evening with a tin box in his hand
II
To kill his lawful married wife
All in her youth and bloom
Likewise two children mother in law
The four possessed one doom,
Unto a lonely house in Nolagh
The victims they did dwell.
He contrived the murder from his heart,
He feared not heaven or hell
The devil was his master
And him he did obey
When he stole in on the window(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Rose Anne Farrelly
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Nolagh, Co. Cavan
- Informant
- Mr P. Farrelly
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Nolagh, Co. Cavan