School: Mionloch (C) (roll number 8800)
- Location:
- Menlough, Co. Galway
- Teachers: Bean Uí Oisín Bean Uí Dhubhagáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0077, Page 142
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- (1)
You youngsters all both great and small,
Come, listen unto me, I'll sing for you,
A verse or two about a jolly spree.
Its all about a party
When like bees they assembled all
To drink the stout as it poured out,
That night at Grallagh Ball.
(2)
The night before from door to door,
They walked the village around,
And when they had walked it over again,
They just had got one pound.
So when they had a little more boys,
Straight to the town they went.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Jessie Burke
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Thomas Burke
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 65
