School: Batterstown
- Location:
- Batterstown, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Seosaimhín, Bean Uí Raghallaigh
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- (continued from previous page)told her to look in it and on doing so she saw the face of a near neighbour woman. She got a fright and she never recovered from the shock and died in a short time after. Meath had many songsters and rhymers. There was one very fine big man in the parish of Kilberry, whose name was Larry McKeever, and no matter what took place in his native parish he made a song about it. He composed the song while at work in the fields and always had his notebook and pencil to put his thoughts into song. Maggie RIckard.
- In the seventeeth century there lived a man in Dalystown named Pat who was(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Maureen Byrne
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- John Byrne
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 37
- Occupation
- Shopkeeper
- Address
- Brannockstown, Co. Meath
