School: An Clochar, B'l'Áthan Ríogh

Location:
Athenry, Co. Galway
Teacher:
An tSr. M. Treasa Ní Bhriain
Browse
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0003, Page 091

Archival Reference

The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0003, Page 091

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: An Clochar, B'l'Áthan Ríogh
  2. XML Page 091
  3. XML “A 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 Song

    Athenny was a town of importance.

    Athenry was a town of importance.
    At the time Brian Boru was Ard-Ri,
    But it met with a lot of misfortunes,
    If you look at the wins you will see,
    There once were two beautiful churches,
    Built right in the heart of the town,
    'Till Cromwell whom every one curses],
    Come over and bumed them down.
    He killed all the men and the women
    And he said "he would wipe out us all",
    But in spite of the wick of the old devil,
    We have still two "T. Ds", in the Dail.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. poetry
        1. folk poetry (~9,504)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Patty Duffy
    Gender
    Unknown
    Address
    Athenry, Co. Galway
    Informant
    Mrs P.J. Duffy
    Relation
    Unknown
    Address
    Athenry, Co. Galway