School: Ballyhale (roll number 7914)

Location:: Ballyhale, Co. Kilkenny
Teacher:: Eibhlín Ní Shúilleabháin

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Local Poets and Their Rhymes (continued)

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on the paper.

Here in Kiltorcan we're run off our feet
Polling and crowning and loading the beat.

N.B. Since writing in the above I have heard that this rhyme appeared in one of out Kilkenny papers and therefore should not be given in a folk-lore collection.

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Local Poets and Their Rhymes

About fifty years ago there lived in the southern end of the parish of Ballyhale a man named Giles Anderson. he was a mason and was well known as a local poet as were many of his ancestors. Though many of the rhymes were rather silly and are now forgotten some of them have lived on. Here is one made by Giles when he was summoned by the police for not having his name on his cart & for

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