School: Clonmacnoise
- Location:
- Clonmacnoise, Co. Offaly
- Teacher: P. Ó Maolmhuaidh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0811, Page 224
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“Mary Daly is my name in King's Co. I was reared”
Song
1.Mary Daly is my name
In King's Co. I was reared,
But sad misfortune overcame me
And I must die on the gallows tree.
This awful deed I don't deny
As I must face my God on high
With a steel grape as there I stood
I left my husband drenched in blood.2.
On the sixteenth of June 1902
My evil passion could not subdue
When I was arrested and locked up in jail
For all the world to hear the tale
A loving husband to lose his life
And all by the hands of his cruel wife
With a castle grand on a hill of sand
with its masonry hanging oer3.
And by St. Ciaran's Well
Where our prayers we tell(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Lil Mannion
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Magheramore, Co. Offaly
- Informant
- Mrs Elizabeth Mannion
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 42
- Address
- Magheramore, Co. Offaly