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School: Cill Srianáin (Jamestown) (roll number 1024)

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Jamestown, Co. Leitrim
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Bríd Ní Ghormáin
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    “As St Nevin once was travelling”

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    421
    "Na bac leis", says St Kevin
    Ill soon settle these young urchins
    And he turned the king and his six sons
    Into the seven churches
    Thus King OToole did suffer
    For his dishonest doings
    And he left the gandher there
    For to guard about the ruins (?)
    Chorus
    If you go there on a Summer's day
    Between 12 and 1 o'clock
    Youll see the gandher flyin' round
    The Glen of Glendalough
    A poor man keeps his word
    Much better that folks grander
    For the King refused to pay the saint
    For caring his ould dead gandher.
    Chorus
    Song. Peter Gilbane Aughrimin Jamestown
    Pupil Kathleen Gilbane
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. poetry
        1. folk poetry (~9,504)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Kathleen Gilbane
    Gender
    Female
    Informant
    Peter Gilbane
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Aughriman, Co. Leitrim