School: Hackettstown (St Joseph's)
- Location:
- Hacketstown, Co. Carlow
- Teacher: M. Ní Raghallaigh
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0909, Page 324
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- There was an old shoe-maker in Hacketstown named Mr Whelan. When asked his charges for repairing shoes, he would say, for planning and contriving, for four nails a-driving, hemp, wax, and leather, four pence half-penny altogether.In days gone by there was a brass band in Hacketstown. The following rhyme was made about the band.Hacketstown band was gone so grand,
It wont come out to play.
They sold their brass to buy an ass,
To draw Paddy Lyons's hay.A man named Howard went with a job to Mr Whelan one Sunday morning, and he saidMr Howard, you must allow(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Moya Scully
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Elizabeth O' Toole
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 60
- Address
- Scotland, Co. Carlow
