School: Cortubber

Location:
Cortober, Co. Roscommon
Teacher:
Mary A. Burke
Browse
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0237, Page 083

Archival Reference

The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0237, Page 083

Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.

See copyright details.

Download

Open data

Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

  1. XML School: Cortubber
  2. XML Page 083
  3. XML “Father Tom Maguire”

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

  1. The following verses are an account of the trial and arrest of this priest a native of Co Leitrim, whom a protestant girl in the district tried to ruin
    I often heard my grandfather R.I.P. sing it when I was a child. He was some relation of his and it used to be sung with great feeling and vigour:-
    There was a widow-woman, who did rear three darlin' sons.
    When the youngest boy became a man at the age of twenty one.
    One night discoursed his mother and those words to her did say.
    I'm fully bent and well content and if you will all agree.
    I'll go away to College a clergyman to be.
    She consulted with his brothers and they did so agree.
    And they sent him off to College a clergyman to be.
    (continues on next page)
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. poetry
        1. folk poetry (~9,504)
    Language
    English