School: Baile Lochnáin
- Location:
- Riverstown, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Tomás Ó Domhnaill
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0531, Page 147
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)
- XML School: Baile Lochnáin
- XML Page 147
- XML “Local Songs”
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
Local Songs
“The following song was composed by Larry Dillon...”
The following song was composed by Larry Dillon who lived in Rathcabbin and who was a poet.One day while Larry was in a graveyard around Rathcabbin there was a Protestant clergy man being buried. Before the clay was put over the coffin he said.
Here lies a lamb of Lucifer's flock
A useless ram let no man mock
For forty years he preached and lied
For which God damned him when he died
One Sunday a tailor went to Larry and said
I have no spade to dig my dinner
Which is a poor way to serve a sinner
Them that's fasting since last(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Eibhlís Ní Bhréaghdha
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Riverstown, Co. Tipperary
- Informant
- Mrs Cleary
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 78
- Address
- Riverstown, Co. Tipperary