1. dúchas.ie
  2. The Schools' Collection
  3. Glenahulla, Mitchelstown

School: Glenahulla, Mitchelstown (roll number 12446)

Location:
Glennahulla, Co. Cork
Teacher:
Máiréad Bean Uí Réagáin
Browse
Mode:
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0376, Page 026

Archival Reference

The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0376, Page 026

Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.

See copyright details.

Download

Open data

Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

  1. XML School: Glenahulla, Mitchelstown
  2. XML Page 026
  3. XML “Folklore - A Ballad of '67”

Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.

On this page

  1. Folklore - A Ballad of '67

    Share Share Post
    I
    My noble-hearted Irishmen of high and low degree
    I hope you will pay attention and listen unto me
    To a doleful lamentation I mean for to pen down
    Concerning that great battle, that was fought near Mitchelstown.
    II
    It was on a Sunday morning between four and five o'clock
    That the police and the soldiers around Kilcloon[?] flocked
    With vengeance in their countenance, their orders being served
    T'was informers' information that quickly brought them there.
    III
    Crowley stepped inside the wood and these words he then did say
    May God direct us to the best, this day we will fight our way
    (continues on next page)
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Máiréad Bean Uí Réagáin
    Gender
    Female
    Occupation
    Múinteoir