School: Béal an Átha Móir (B.)
- Location:
- Ballinamore, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Seán Ó Heslin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0225, Page 265
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- (continued from previous page)And the open courts for the tenant farmers to fix
fair rents by good honest men,
And we broke the backs of those ''bums'' and bailiffs and compelled the grabbers for to give in.
- ''Countrymen! dear countrymen! to you I now declare
On St. Patrick's Night by the moonlight, I lost my darling more.
You know it is a great loss to me, with that I must abide
Oh! was it Captain Moonlight! or was not suicide:''The mare was sane I do declare, she never acted slack
The captain must have rode her off, and will not bring her back
Or do you think she's gone for good?
Or it it is but a joke?
If that be true I'll curse the day I grabbed the land in Stroke(continues on next page) - Collector
- Mr P. Flood
- Gender
- Male
- Occupation
- Clerk
- Address
- Ballinamore, Co. Leitrim
- Informant
- Hugh Prior
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Derrinivver, Co. Leitrim
