School: Coolavin (roll number 10422)
- Location:
- Monasterredan, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Mícheál Ó Braonáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0188, Page 277
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A Local Song (continued)
“It was on the 2nd of April”
(continued from previous page)He was loyal to his countrymen
Like bold O'Donaghue.
IV
It was then our gallant countrymen
The police, they did take in,
If Watty knew they would stand so brave
The fray would not begin.
It was then he took to the mountains
Out of peoples' view
He might have gone straight home
For it was little of it they knew.
V
The bogs were his resorting place
His Government life to spend
And the schoolhouse bush will be haunted
Till the world is at an end.
Michael Casey, he is in hospital
So is Patk. Flaherty too
And as for poor Hugh Kelly
Alas! what shall he do?
VI
In Kilcolman's sacred ground
Their bodies were interred
And with their fellow patriots
Their (bodies) names engraved.
It was Fr. O'Hara blessed their graves(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Rita Giblin
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Clogher, Co. Sligo
- Informant
- Mrs T. Giblin
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 52
- Address
- Clogher, Co. Sligo