School: St. Anne's (B.)
- Location:
- Bailieborough, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: P. Mac an t Saoir
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1012, Page 326
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- Long ago there resided, about five miles east of Bailieboro, in the district of Upper Glassleck a poet named "Fifer" Traynor. He was so called because he played the fife, and taught fife-and-drunm bands.
A neighbour of his named Fildy Halfpenny, who lived beside Dhuish mountain in the next townland, had a jennet which he sold to a man named Montgomery of Bailieboro to draw patients to the old fever hospital in a van.
He wrote a song about the jennet, but(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Tom Finegan
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- P. Mc Intyre
- Address
- Bailieborough, Co. Cavan
