School: Ballycreen, Aughrim
- Location:
- Ballycreen Lower, Co. Wicklow
- Teacher: Nóra Ní Dhonnchadha
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- (continued from previous page)whose name was Mr Wheeler. He was a Protestant school-master who used to spend a lot of his time making poetry. He composed all in English. The local people liked him very well. He was buried in Ballinatone.
There are a couple of poets in the parish of (Ire) Aughrim, that write poetry and send it sometimes to the local papers.
One of them writes under the name of Crom Abú and the other the Roving Bard. Crom Abú writes poetry from history, The Roving Bard writes about the (coount) country-side as he goes along.
Told by Joshep O'Byrne
Ballycreen
Age 50 years
Eddie O'Byrne
Cronawinna
- Collector
- Eddie O' Byrne
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Cronawinnia, Co. Wicklow
- Informant
- Joseph O' Byrne
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 50
- Address
- Ballycreen Lower, Co. Wicklow
