School: Owning Convent (roll number 16430)
- Location:
- Owning, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: Sr. M. Bernadette
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He'd rise upon his heel a bit -
His cudgel thin he'd wheel a bit -
Like a doctor with a lancet, he would decorate yer crown;
If yer head wor like a [...]
Be me word, twould get the "jiggers",
Oh! a caution wud a kippin, is a boy
From Hugginstown.4
An' see him at the hurlin;
Amid camann a-curlin',
The ball he sends it whirlin', like a bird before a gale;
The hills they shake with shoutin',
While the boys that ball are cloutin',
Thro' goal 'gainst all he sends it a shot
That cannot cannot fail.5
See his thatchin, an' his sowin',
His cradlin', an' his sowin',
Sure, the sods he turns upwards are a(continues on next page)- Collector
- M. Nolan
- Address
- Garryduff, Co. Kilkenny
- Informant
- T. Nolan
- Age
- 50
- Address
- Newmarket, Co. Kilkenny