School: Cill Seanaigh (B.), Inis (roll number 10517)
- Location:
- Kilshanny, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Mícheál Mac Craith
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- A story I'll relate to you thank God it ended well,
About a widowed mother's son in Kilshanny he doth dwell.
His mother holds a farm composed of acres few
Where she often freely paid her rent, which gave her enough to do.
II
A surly Bodach who lived near beheld with envious eyes
This lowly widows bit of land and for it did bid high
He forced or bribed the agent to eject poor Mrs. McKeon
Out of the land her father held for many a long long year.(continues on next page)
