School: Cluain Taidhg (Clontead), Achadh Cóiste (roll number 14023)

Location:
Clontead More, Co. Cork
Teacher:
Máire, Bean Uí Mhurchadha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0345, Page 074

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  3. XML “A Local Song”
  4. XML “The Bogra Hills”

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  1. A Local Song (continued)

    One Sunday evening lately as, I strolled from new Tipperary...

    (continued from previous page)
    no avail,
    And if you don't pay the fine, we'll take you down the line.
    For a fortnight picking okum, inside Cork County jaol.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
  2. I'm sitting watching the coal fires burning,
    My mind and thoughts they being far from here.
    For fancy penance is now returning,
    To where Cork's dear old peaks appear.
    There is something there in the shelf before me,
    And! oh! with sadness my heart it fills.
    What a flood of memory it brings all o'er me,
    That sod of turf from the "Bogra Hills"
    (continues on next page)
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. poetry
        1. folk poetry (~9,504)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Joan Dineen
    Gender
    Female
    Informant
    Nora Cooney
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Coachford, Co. Cork