School: Killummod
- Location:
- Killummod, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Tadhg Ó Bhioscáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0237, Page 312
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“Long ago butter and milk were supposed to be stolen”
(continued from previous page)She will beat off our hounds
And with horn and with whip
We will cry tally ho
And we will knock up this hare
At the church of Toomna".
(VI)
When Willie Molloy found she was there
He soon set her off
With a fresh pack of hounds
On comes John McDermott
With his big black grey hound
And he drove her
From these wild hills
Right into Ballinahown.
(VII)
"Oh begor" says John Dowd
It is now I am robbed
With Garveys witch hare
That comes from the bogs
She feeds on my wheat
And she sucks my cows
And quickly I'll banish her
Out of this town".
(VIII)
So they chased her through thick
And they chased her through thin
'Till they drove her right near(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Joseph Bryan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Carrowreagh, Co. Roscommon
- Informant
- Richard Elwood
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 80
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Canbo, Co. Roscommon