School: Killurney, Cluain Meala

Location:
Killurney, Co. Tipperary
Teacher:
Máire de Brún
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    Good night my neighbours...

    "Good night my honest neighbours
    Ill call to see you soon
    I'll cross the hills of Sievenamon
    Where brightly shines the moon.
    Ill seek the woods of lone Glen gowel.
    Or some old rock or cave
    But now he lies in sweet Kilcash
    And fills a rebels grave"
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. poetry
        1. folk poetry (~9,504)
    2. time
      1. historical periods by name (~25)
        1. the great famine (~4,013)
    Informant
    Mrs Mary Donovan
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Knockanclash, Co. Tipperary
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    A man named Madden was shot in Killurney wood some years ago. ...

    A man named Madden was shot in Killurney wood some years ago. Although mortally wounded he dragged himself to a neighbouring house and told the names of his assailants (the Coady's) who were afterwards hanged in Clonmel. As Coady was brought out to the scoffold he tried to shoe his excutioner from
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
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    English