School: Monknewton (roll number 9696)
- Location:
- Monknewtown, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Maighréad Ní Mhurchadha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0713, Page 441
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Your cart is wreat and worn friend
Your ass seems very old
It must be twenty summers
since the animal was fooled
Yoked in a trap when I was
born in September forty three
He canted for the midwife said
The Turf man from Ardee. IV.
My cart must be made
out of the best of wood
I'm sure it must be in use
at the time of Noes flood
The axle never wanted grease
Save one year out of two
Its a real old Carrack
Axle said the turf man from Ardee.V.
In truth I never drove
old Jack unshod.
Though oft I did abuse him
with this old hasel rod.
The harness upon his neck
was made by John Magee.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary Alice Smyth
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Dowth, Co. Meath
