Volume: CBÉ 0190
- Date
- 1936
- Collector
- Locations
Archival Reference
The Main Manuscript Collection, Volume 0190, Page 184
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“I saw a birch flag making hay for the Lord of Tyrone”
I saw a birch flag making hay for the Lord of Tyrone, an overgrown pig dancing in the fair of Athlone. I saw a milk cow wearin horns eleven feet long and a goat makin brogues and she hammerin the leather ding dong. I saw a hawk in Dundalk with his spectacles reading the news, a lark in St. Vark and his spectacles cobblin out shoes. I saw Mullingar driven by a jack-ass and Dublin City goin down to Min Cross. I saw and elephant hid in the bill of a small banton hen, and all the Barony Forth taking tay with the Glynn