School: Leithead (roll number 5480)
- Location:
- Lehid, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Diarmuid Ó Súilleabháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0462, Page 181
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“The song Murty Larry made for the football game that was played between the Ardea team and the Castlebere team in olden times.”
(continued from previous page)To seek the sporting tavern to have a parting drain
I'm sure they were in need of it ]Their teeth and jaws were trembling
With cheeks as pale as candle light and shedding tears like rain
VII
Go back again you laymen to your cages in the wilderness
Wait another season 'till you science a little more,
You can eat your champion potatoes
Maiden rays and Pichey dogs
To strengthen up your muscles to play another goal.
VIII
We will plant the Laurel tree in that field to hail the memory
Of our brave and gallant Kerryboy
That won that struggling game
From Gluanhoo a true milesian King
That reigned in early centuries(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary Shea
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Lehid, Co. Kerry
- Informant
- Patrick Shea
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Lehid, Co. Kerry