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   their journey. I myself remember some 35 years ago to see the colliers from Castlecomer, Earl's Hill and Knockankit districts in Kilkenny, passing our door about twilight on the way to Clonmel and elsewhere with their loads of culm, and some four nights later they returned. As well as I remember the leading carman only, of a string of from seven to eleven or twelve, used to be awake, the others slept on their long-heeled long, low carts. I suppose they used to take turns to keep awake.
   The Carman of Carass
   "What are you doing? you're so seldom here"
   "I'm in Sweet Caherass throughout the year,
   O Callahan Toomey, far and near
   with my fol the dol the dol the dol the dol the dee"
   Up comes Kit with her sigh and moan,
   She kicked the car and her traces broke.
   And she swore to Cripes that she'd car no more
   With my fol the dol the dol the dol the dol the dee.
   Note.
   Kit was a broken-winded mare. I do not know whether the O in line 3 of the first above verse, is the O of the Irish vocative case, or the O of "O'Callaghan". This Callahan or OCallahan Toomey was a carman who lived in Carass. The people here now definitely say "Carass" as a rule, but Miss Guare in quoting the line 2 I above definitely said Caherass

   

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   1. seánra
      1. filíocht
         1. filíocht na ndaoine (~9,504)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Daithí Ó Ceanntabhail

   Gender

   Male

   Occupation

   Múinteoir

   Informant

   Miss Guare

   Gender

   Female