School: An Bealach, Crosaire an Ghúlaigh (roll number 1131)
- Location:
- Ballagh, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Diarmuid Mac Fhloinn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0583, Page 137
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- (continued from previous page)I'm covered o'er with rags
But some fine day I will go away
And seek a better job
And I'll bid adieu to Ballagh
And the jackass in the bog.
- The neat little stream floes gentle and keen
Through the west of Park Valley and famed Turrakeen
When you are passing it by in the want of a drop
Call in to Jim Daveann's public shop
Tis there you get porter and whiskey galore
The best in old Ireland is sold in Rossmore. - Informant
- Mrs Kearns
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballagh, Co. Tipperary
- If you Tommy Moore had no shoes to your feet
A hungry stomach and nothing to eat
To sleep in Doyle's barn without blankets or sheet
You would not give a damn
Where the Bright Waters meet.
