School: Ladhar an Chrompáin (roll number 14998)
- Location:
- Lyracrumpane, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Pádraig Ó Súilleabháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0407, Page 261
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“There was a widow in this place who had three darling sons...”
(continued from previous page)He had one only daughter and she was a beauty bright,
She said unto her father "This young man I go to see,
Before he went to College he was a school-boy along with me".
VIII
She was invited into the parlour where she drank both ale and wine,
She says, "You are a clever young fellow, I will have you resign,
What makes you be a clergyman, don't you know you are astray,
A clergyman must rise by night and travel hard by day.
What are you but a widow's son, and that both poor and mane
Oughtn't you think it a great honour such a lady to obtain.
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I have ten thousand pounds a year and on you I will bestow".
He says "My honourable lady, do not explain your mind,
If you offer me ten thousand more I ne'er shall wed a wife
For in this holy situation I mean to end my life,
Come then clear damsel say no more, I ne'er shall wed a wife".(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Eilís Ní Churáin
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Lyracrumpane, Co. Kerry
- Informant
- Tadhg O Curáin
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- Over 50
- Address
- Lyracrumpane, Co. Kerry