School: Mastersons (roll number 8390)
- Location:
- Manorhamilton, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Gobnait de Búit
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- Formed long ago, yet made today,
employed while others sleep.
What few would like to give away
Yet none would like to keep.
A bed.
what grows in the wood, and sounds in the town, and for its masks eand many a crown.
a fiddle.
Useless, useless instrument.
Once it's bought it's never lent.
The man who buys it does not want it
and the man who wants it doesn't know it.
A coffin.
As white as an angel
As light as a feather.
But heavy and dark
when you squeeze it together
Snow
As I sat on my hunkers,
I peeped through my winkers,
and I saw the dead burying the living.
Raking the fire.(continues on next page)- Collector
- Georgina O' Malley
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Manorhamilton, Co. Leitrim
- Informant
- Mrs Williamson
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 60
- Address
- Manorhamilton, Co. Leitrim