School: Baile an Ghaorthaidh, Cluain Meala
- Location:
- Ballingeary East, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Seán Ó hAodha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0569, Page 020
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- (continued from previous page)With a bridle and a saddle and a rider on her back.
She was just like a racer, that you’d see upon the track.
She’s true and straight of action and pleasing to the eye
And he said unto his little son she’s one I’d like to buy.
Carefully he examined her from her back unto the ground.
I’ll give you twenty guineas and for luck I’ll give a pound.
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When coming home that evening and trotting up the lane
The first to meet him was his little daughter Jane.
Loudly she called her Mammy ‘The mare they could not sell.
She’s clipped and docked all over, but her walk you’d know it well.’
But tell me, tell me, Sean a mhic. Why did you clip the mare?
You clipped her once before and she got a little cold.
And how can she escape it now a mare so thin and old.
- Collector
- John Barrett
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Poulnamucky, Co. Tipperary
- Informant
- William Lee
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Poulnamucky, Co. Tipperary
- Informant
- Michael Barrett
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Poulnamucky, Co. Tipperary
