School: Virginia (C )
- Location:
- Virginia, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Mrs Farelly
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1001, Page 186
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Virginia (C )
- XML Page 186
- XML “An Old Song”
- XML “The Hackler from Grousehall”
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
An Old Song (continued)
“Ye gay jolly sportsmen all with me combine Till I'll sing ye the praises of Jane Valentine”
(continued from previous page)On the day of the wedding Pat Connon's horse and Patrick Morgan's horse went on a race. Which ever horse won the race the owner got bottle of whiskey
- I am a roving Hackler,
I've roamed the Shamrock Shore,
My name is Pat McDonagh and my age is eighty four.
Well loved and well respected by friends and neighbours all,
In sweet Stradone I am well known round Laragh and Grouse Hall.
II
When I was young I danced and sung and drank some whiskey too,
Each Shebeen shop sold a drop of the real of mountain dew
With the poteen still on every hill the peelers had no call,
For on Patrick's Day I would love to stray for pleasure to Grouse Hall(continues on next page) - Collector
- Rita O' Reilly
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Virginia, Co. Cavan
- Informant
- Mr O' Reilly
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- P. Smith
- Gender
- Unknown
