School: Eanach, Sráid na Cathrach (roll number 15221)

Location:
Annagh, Co. Clare
Teacher:
Máirtín Ó Críocháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0625, Page 288

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  1. Mrs. Burdett Moroney was the Landlady of these lands. She gave sites to Lords and Protestant Gentlemen in Spanish Point and they built nice lodges and houses. But she was very hard on the tenant-farmers and some of them were evicted and she was boycotted about 50 years ago.
    The shop-keepers of Miltown would not supply her servants with goods and about twenty of them got a month in jail. The tree blacksmiths of the town would hot shoe her horses and they were sent to prision.
    T. D Sullivan M. P composed a song about them.-
    I
    Three brave blacksmiths down in the County Clare,
    They wouldn't shoe the grabber's horse, they would'nt shoe his mare,
    They would'nt take his money, for his threats they didnt care,
    Those three brave blacksmiths down in the County Clare,
    II
    Three brave blacksmiths coming home once more,
    (continues on next page)
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Máire Ní Marnáin
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    13
    Address
    Knockanalban, Co. Clare
    Informant
    John Marrinan
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    75
    Address
    Knockanalban, Co. Clare