School: Gort an tSiúrdáin (roll number 14534)

Location:
Gortjordan, Co. Mayo
Teacher:
Seán Ó Módhráin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0106, Page 712

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0106, Page 712

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    Their policy was destruction not construction. Those towers are known as "clog teach" or the "house of the bell". They were built near churches to add to their beauty and to serve as watch towers and places of security in which the sacred vessels were kept during the time of war. There was an opening in the ground floor. There are eighty of these in Ireland still, twenty of them perfect.
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  2. An Old Song

    There was once an old Kilmolara cow

    There was once an old Kilmolara cow
    She ate and she drank all before her
    She ate a harrow and and a plough
    She at a cock of straw on Tom Browne
    And a cock of hay half way down.
    (continues on next page)
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. poetry
        1. folk poetry (~9,504)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Michael Sweeney
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Turloughanbaun, Co. Mayo
    Informant
    Michael Connor
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Turloughanbaun, Co. Mayo