School: Naomh Pádraig, Carrowmena (roll number 16787)
- Location:
- Carrowmenagh, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Pádraig S. Ó Cathain
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1118, Page 360
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- Come all you brave fellows, come listen to what I say,
Till I tell you of these lovers who met on Casan Bray,
The time being late, no time to trate, nor yet become acquaint,
John says to his Mary "this country's poor with rent,
But if you agree and come with me, 1800 miles away,
You'll live content and pay no rent, neither holiday nor May."
Mary smiled and seemed beguiled, and thought the offer grand,
That a man from so far, like a blooming star,
Would visit Termone Strand.
- Collector
- Mary Rose Breslin
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Carrowblagh or Leckemy, Co. Donegal
- Informant
- Mary Doherty
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 76
- Address
- Carrowmenagh, Co. Donegal
