School: Baltrasna (roll number 4086)
- Location:
- Baltrasna, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Máire, Bean Uí Shuibhne
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0716, Page 274
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Baltrasna
- XML Page 274
- XML “Poem of County Meath Poet”
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- Poem of Co Meath poet IOn Carrick hill I plied my
quill and sat a while
to write, in praises of this comely
maid I mean for to erudite
Her carriage neat and limbs complete like any of the ???
And her nice abode stands on the road that lead to
Sweet Lough Bawn
II
There is Dromone it stand alone
An ancient village town there was no fairs
nor markets there since Cromwell knocked
it down,
if the bonny lark from day
to dark came whistling o'er the lawn
and if it could speak with its small
beak good morning sweet Lough Bawn
III
A round sweet Knockine they do incline
and cross by sweet Loughlane and into Fore
to join by more the wildgoose, duck and teal
by the Fowlers gun they are all done and(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Eithne Kearney
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Baltrasna, Co. Meath
- Informant
- James Kearney
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 21
- Address
- Baltrasna, Co. Meath
