School: Talbhain (Irish Wastelands Society) (roll number 4013)

Location:
Knockmoyle East, Co. Galway
Teacher:
Bean Uí Fhearghail
Browse
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0051, Page 0198

Archival Reference

The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0051, Page 0198

Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.

See copyright details.

Download

Open data

Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

  1. XML School: Talbhain (Irish Wastelands Society)
  2. XML Page 0198
  3. XML “A Local Song”

Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.

On this page

  1. A Local Song (continued)

    On a fine starry night and the ¶ moon shining bright.

    (continued from previous page)
    A reception we couldn't meet warmer
    IIIII.
    "Please come here till we speak I didn't' see you this week.
    Come over to see yonder fountain.
    "I cannot delay young man" she did say.
    "For you know I must go to the mountain".
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. poetry
        1. folk poetry (~9,504)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Brigid Fallon
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Knockmoyle West, Co. Galway