School: Baile an Doirín (C) (roll number 7552)
- Location:
- Ballinderreen, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Treasa Bean Uí Bheirn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0033B, Page 02_055
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An Old Song (continued)
“Up in Killalough a man lived there”
(continued from previous page)She was ringed in the tail and curled in the scull
And for forty years before that she never saw the bull
The picture of the old boy was printed in her face
She seemed to carry vengeance to the whole human race
In the year 41 when the fodder it was dear
She ate a stack of barley in Berny Mac Leane
Likewise a cock of foreign grass in a man called Kean
She next attached a police man that was coming from the town
And with all her acts of Parliament
She brought him to the ground(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Kathleen Flannery
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- John Flannery
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 48
- Address
- Ballinderreen, Co. Galway
- Informant
- Michael Fahy
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 78
- Address
- Cartron, Co. Galway