School: Carrickatee (roll number 16481)
- Location:
- Carrickatee, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: Éamonn Ó Dubhthaigh
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- (continued from previous page)With vanity and presumptious thoughts he has a narrow mind
With bribery and a lying tongue he is a man of fame
A disgrace to his allegiance
William Murphy is his name
IV
But now he bitterly rues the day the gunlet he threw at me
For the world all knows how him I beat on the bog of Carrickatee
His malicious thoughts he also turned on a poor and struggling man
In public he tried to evict him from his bog and farm of land.
V
For Ward he would not let him trespass upon his land
When baliff Murphy he exclaimed
"I am a rising man".(continues on next page)- Collector
- Alice Ward
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Carrickatee, Co. Monaghan