School: Stonetown, Louth (roll number 16431)

Location:
Stonetown Lower, Co. Louth
Teacher:
P. Ó Dubháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0668, Page 250

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  1. (continued from previous page)
    I care not for your city.
    Nor for your fancy balls
    Give me the homely gathering
    Where the Irish tweeds and shawls
    Are sported down in Rosslough
    Not too far from my abode,
    By the colleens and buacails
    At the deck beside the road.
    The above song was made about a deck that was erected beside the road in Rosslough about 25 or 30 years ago.
    Collected by Peter Marron: Tully.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
  2. Seo ceann eile!-
    Down by the river Fane
    With flowers, a bloom one afternoon
    I rambled all alone
    Neath a leafy shade I heard a maid
    Making a sigh and moan
    Saying Johnny dear if you were here
    My troubles they'd by o'er
    But in Africa-y my love to day
    Is fighting for the Boer
    I would I could if I could hear
    Your music voice again
    The day we met I'll n'er forget
    Down by the river Fane.
    (continues on next page)
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. poetry
        1. folk poetry (~9,504)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Eileen Bellew
    Gender
    Female
    Informant
    Mrs E. Clinton
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    38
    Address
    Rosslough, Co. Louth