School: Camross, Mountrath (roll number 15933)
- Location:
- Camross, Co. Laois
- Teacher: Pádraig Ó Heifearnáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0827, Page 179
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“There was a little house well thatched with straw.”
I:
There was a little house well thatched with straw.
Two bonhams and a rum of a sow
(A little bay)
A little bay mare a little jantan car.
Sallors the
batchelers they don't come now.
II:
Jack go sell your fiddle and but your wife a gown
"I will not sell my fiddle for all the wives in town."
"And if I sold my fiddle I might lie under the sod."
"A many is the pleasand day myself and my fiddle had"(continues on next page)
- Informant
- James Lyons
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Srahanboy, Co. Laois