School: Kilbeggan (B.)
- Location:
- Kilbeggan, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: P. Mac Siúrtáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0732, Page 358
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“In Ballinderry when I was a youth ¶ And before I went a rovin”
There is an old song connected with this locality which old men were heard singing at weddings, wakes, etc long ago but which we seldom or ever hear now. It was written or composed I should have said because the persons who could write at that time were few and far between by a man named Crennion from Ballinderry. There were two old maids living in the townland of Ballinderry who purchased two(continues on next page)