School: Cúl an Dasain (Cooladawson) (roll number 1620)
- Location:
- Cooladawson, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Pádraig Mag Uidhir
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1100, Page 15
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- (continued from previous page)Over you stretch o' meadow-land
And ove the burnie bright,
Dinna' ye mark the fir tree stand
Around you gable white?
I mind it weel in my young days;
The story yel (?) was rife -
There dwelt within that lonel place
A farmer and his wife.
They sat together all alone
That blessed Autumn night,
When the trees with out and hedge and stone
Were white in the pale moon light.
The boys and girls had a' gone down
A wee to the blacksmith's wake
There passed one by the window (?)
And gied the door a shake.
The man rose up, and op'ed the door
And when he'd spoke a bit
A pedlar man stepped into the floor,
And tumbled down the pack he bore,
A right heavy pack was it(continues on next page)
