School: Dún Átha, Carraig an Chabhaltaigh
- Location:
- Doonaha, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Ed J. Headtromóin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0633, Page 265
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- (continued from previous page)iii.
When "Whisker" Kelly heard the noise, on mule back he then rode,
To inform the Policemen he went by Albert Road
He frightened "Lonesome Johnny" as in slumber he then lay
When he told him the pound was broken down
And the cattle stolen away. iv.
And poor Lonesome Johnny got such an awful fright
He "awoke" all the bobbies, just at the dead of night
And told them they should travel until they searched Moveen.
And find all the cattle that were stolen from Bob Greene.v.
All those cursed blood-hounds, they met up in Moveen.
They searched from Batty's Mountain right back into Goleen
But they were not successful as they rode on bike
They didn't find the cattle or Mykie O'Dea's "Klondike"vi.
But some of those cattle were found again
which grieves me to relate
By Hogan the policeman the dirty "lick-the-plate"
But never let him show his face again
To the free hills of Moveen
For "Kruger" with his rifle
Will blow him from the "Queen""Lonesome Johnny" was the local R.I.C. Sergeant
- Collector
- Richard Lynch
- Gender
- Male
