School: Gort Leitreach (roll number 15960)
- Location:
- Gortletteragh, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Seosamh Mac Cionnaith
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0214, Page 371
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- (continued from previous page)Their gruttle vile rapaciousness and scames they exercise and the whole compound of experiments they quickly gormandize. So then with great celerity their course they rumerate. And there, vile regonging stratagems they boldy accurate
It is with predal wheminey they seize upon their prog,
For the hedhogs they devour and the mags' nest they do rob.Sometimes they prey upon the frogs, the leeches, clocks and snails
Besides old crocks and cockleshells glass windows is brogenils,
The esins of the houses they search for sparrow eggs
Besides for scaldeys and young mice, clags, deels and spiderwebs.
It is supposed by men endowed with cronology.
Those rambling swines has now fulfilled part of the history
In my conclusion I relate that it has been destined.
There was some pig before the war to run the slaughter-line
- Informant
- John Bohan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Fearglass North, Co. Leitrim
