School: Baurnafea, Paulstown (roll number 807)
- Location:
- Baurnafea, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: Sean Moffat
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0861, Page 351
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- This poem made by a travelling man is recited by the local people. It concerns chicken buyer named Delaney who lived in KilkennyI
Delaney from the market bout a fowl a month ago.
If he meets the man who sold it he will kill him with a blow.
He said it was a chicken of a plump and tender breed
But of a more deceitful bird you will never near or readChorus
The bird it must have crowed when they built the Tower of Babel,
It was fed by Cain and Abel and lived it lived in Noah's stable
All the shots that were fired on the field of Waterloo.
Couldn't penetrate, dislocate, enlogate,
armour plated,
double breasted'
iron chested
Cock a doodle-do.II
When they settled down to pluck it all their efforts were in vain,
There hands were torn and blistered and their muscles had a strain.(continues on next page)
- Informant
- Thomas Brophy
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 45
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Castlewarren, Co. Kilkenny
