School: Clonin, Mountrath (roll number 15932)
- Location:
- Clonin, Co. Laois
- Teacher: Bean Uí Bhraoin
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0825, Page 374
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- All ye young men think of me as I am, doomed to misery and remark what I relate in my tale.
Whilst I earnestly rehearse o'er each sympathetic verse and young Tom Scully is my name.
That that traitor Kiernan Troy sure he did me sore annoy.
He betrayed me at once in my prime and may ye all avoid what has we now destroyed.
Though in heaven its a pardonable crime,
When those evils I foresaw.
Contrary to the law.
At times their impulses I debarred,
But he always did me tease,
Till his ardour I did please.
Not thinking that he'd take their reward,
But the carpet creeping cur.
From me he would not stir,
Until he drew from me the truth.
And fatal was the time
And venial was the crime.
That destroyed me in the bloom of my youth.
But the bitter stinging wasp,
Sure he thought to make a grasp.
When a story at Philipstown he told.
He like Nero there would stay.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- George Breen
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Denis Kavanagh
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 79
- Address
- Ballyhorahan, Co. Laois
