School: Killeen, Granard (roll number 13752)

Location:
Killeen, Co. Longford
Teacher:
S. Ó Duibhgeanáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0765, Page 440

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0765, Page 440

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    and there were often lights seen in the forts at night.
    The owners of these forts do not interfere with the bushes of the forts because a man was cutting bushes in his fort to bush a gap and a bush slapped back and cut the eye out of him and he had to get it out.
    My father told me all this information and he is years.
    May Fagan Leitrim, Mostrim.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
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    Local Poets
    Joseph Donnelly of Carra was a great poet and he was born in Carra. He died at the age of 72 and he was buried in Carra.
    He made poems about "Lough Sheelin", "Pat O'Farrell", "The Moat of Granard", "The rebellion of 98" and of other things.
    He made the poem about the moat of Granard after playing pipes at a sports in Granard. He made a poem about Lough
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. poetry
        1. folk poetry (~9,504)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Michael Cunningham
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Tonywardan, Co. Longford
    Informant
    James Kearney
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    40