School: Tattenclave
- Location:
- Tattintlieve, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: Bríd Ní Chróinín
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0948, Page 229
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- (continued from previous page)The name was "The Foolish Hunter",
he got the first hair. It ends by tellign what time he went to bed. I do not know the words.
They were all over seventy when they died. They got the power of making poetry form their ancestors. They were all very clever and they were very poor. Sometimes they all met together and made songs. Some of them used to go about begging and the people would give them a few pennies.
- They used to sing songs in people's houses if they would give them lodging for a night. These are the names of some songs they used to sing: The plain: The fair hills of Carn: The wild banks(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Peter Smyth
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 14
- Address
- Liscumasky, Co. Monaghan
- Informant
- Edward Smyth
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 66
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Liscumasky, Co. Monaghan
