School: Killeenkere
- Location:
- Killinkere, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: A. Ó Cléirigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1005, Page 066
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Local Songs (continued)
“I am a roaring hackler that loves the shamrock shore”
(continued from previous page)So very much of late
Coercion now, is all the row
And peeler on their bate
To take a glass, is oh! alas!
The greatest crime atall
Since Balfor placed
That hungry beast
The sergeant of Grousehall
4
He haunts the League
Just like a plague
Mast shameful to relate
The priest on Sunday can't be free
The mass to celebrate
For (there) their he kneels
And cased in steels
And ready at duty's call
For to assail and haul to gaol
Our clergy to Grousehall.
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His raid on dogs it almost flogs
Most shocking to behold
How he'd pull up a six month's pup
And swear him two years old.
He'll seize a goat just by the throat
Head, horns tail and all
There is no peace about the place(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Bernard Fitzsimons
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Kilmore, Co. Cavan
- Informant
- Patrick Fitzsimons
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 65
- Address
- Kilmore, Co. Cavan