School: Ladhar (B.), Bán-Tír (roll number 3269)
- Location:
- Lyre, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Pádraig Ó Halladáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0361, Page 447
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Young maids of Duhallow that's anxious for courting,
A word of advice I will give unto thee,
Proceed to Banteer to the Athletic Sports there,
And give in your name to the Sports Committee;
Do not commence any part of your programme
'Till the carriage is noticed coming over the hills
Flying through the valleys and hills of Kilcorney
With our Muskerry sportsman, old bold Tady Quill.
II
Tady was famous at Sports andc races
And many other places he was very well known
For he was the boy that could court all the ladies
From Bantry Bay to the town of Athlone,
There's not a young lady from Kerry to Coachford
But is wild to elope with him right with a will
There's not a young man in Kanturk or Kilcorney
Could ball play or bowl with bold Tady Quill.
III
For Tady was famous in many other places,
At the Athletics Sports held down at Cloghroe
He won the long jump without throwing off his waist coat
Going 24 ft. from the heel to the toe,
At casting the weights there was a Dublin man foremost
But our Muskerry sportsman exceeded him still(continues on next page)
- Collector
- J Mc Carthy
- Informant
- Thomas Bride
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 60
- Address
- Nadanuller More, Co. Cork
