School: Faughalstown (roll number 9622)
- Location:
- Faughalstown, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: Bean Mhic Gabhann
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0719, Page 608
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- As I roved out one evening in the pleasant month of May,
From the town of Eden-derry to Kilkenny I did stray,
I met with an old women and her name I did not know,
But she banged me with the beetle round the bog of Timahoe.
II
As she was washing by the river side I happend to pass by,
I though she was a fair one and on her I cast my eye.
I gently stepped up to her and I though to teast her so,
But she banged me with the beetle round the bog of Timahoe.
III
I was on my master's business but I had not long to stay,
I had a score of cattle I bough at the fair that day.
My cattle strayed away from me to(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Maud Nea
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Patrick Nea
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ringstown, Co. Westmeath
