School: Cill Bhriotáin (C.) (roll number 11728)
- Location:
- Kilbrittain, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Cáit de Búrca
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“About 1845 Jimmy Fahy, Kilbrittain; married a Daly girl, also of Kilbrittain.”
Na giotaí seo leanas fuarthas iad ó Micheál Ó Síothchaín, Gort na h-Eornán)
About 1845 Jimmy Fahy, Kilbrittain; married a Daly girl , also of Kilbrittain. (Her mother was known as Cáit na Carraige) A local poet called Mehigan composed the following piece on their marriage. This Mehigan was a labourer and went from Kilbrittain to Kinsale.
"Sé mo cathú tá'n lanamhain seo ag gluaiseacht
Mar measaim gur suarach é a ngnó
Ní raibh corcán 'cú, cathaoir ná fúrma
Ná leabaidh chun suan ann, ná bórd.
Ach grafán gur bhfearr liom é luadh liom ná coróín
Gurb é Séamus De Fatha chuir cruaidh ann
'S do thairig go suairc é le na ód.
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Do cheádcha-sa fheiscint fé smúit
Mar nuair a thagann an fhearthainn agus báisteach
Níl a reachta (?litriú) có-shásta ó's a chionn.
Nuair a aireochaidh daoine uaisle Cinn tSáile é
Cuirfidh siad thar sáíle mé anonn
Mar a bhíonn obair sgean' forc is gach áise
Do bhíonn ó's cionn clár aca súd."
- Informant
- Micheál Ó Síothcháin
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Barleyfield, Co. Cork