School: Fanaid (roll number 10658)
- Location:
- Fánaid, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Cáitlín Bean Uí Dhochartaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1089, Page 201
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Song
“Come all you pretty fair maids, ¶ I hope you will draw near, ¶ Till I relate those verses few, ¶ That I have wrote down here.”
9th Nov. '38
Song as song by Hugh McAteer
Drumfad
Ballynashanagh.Age 76. about.This song he says was made by Brian & Charles McAveys who are dead about 30 yrs ago.Come all you pretty fair maids,
I hope you will draw near,
Till I relate those verses few,
That I have wrote down here,
Concerning a pretty fair maid
And her equal I never saw before
In her rural habitation.
On the Banks of Swilly Shore.
II
As I roamed out one evening,
In the Spring time of the year,
Down by a pleasant shady grove(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Cáitlín Bean Uí Dhochartaigh
- Gender
- Female
- Occupation
- Múinteoir
- Informant
- Hugh Mc Ateer
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- c. 76
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Drumfad, Co. Donegal