School: Clochar na Trocaire, Cinn Mhara

Location:
Kinvarra, Co. Galway
Teacher:
Siúr M. Bernadette
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0049, Page 0363

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  1. Long ago poets were very numerous in every district in County Galway. They used travel every district composing songs ballads of ever place. Their fame is still kept in the memory of the people. They composed them generally about rich people and their fame and also of old ruins.
    There lived a man named Richard Weights. he lived in Kilcolgan. he composed a song while he was in exile in Kilcolgan in which the big house of Tyrone was the subject of the song. He is now in America composing poetry and songs. People sing the song of Kilcolgan where people are going to America. There lived
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    Topics
    1. genre
      1. poetry
        1. folk poetry (~9,504)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Mary A. Hughes
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Ballinderreen, Co. Galway
    Informant
    Delia St George
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Kilcolgan, Co. Galway