School: Newtown, Kells (roll number 5053)
- Location:
- Newtown (Shea), Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: (name not given)
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- (continued from previous page)Kells.
He had his destination near the Creamery.
He died in Kells a long time ago, and he is buried in the Seven castles in Kells.
The people had a rhyme about him. "Tom the Divil shoot the moon, sliped his gun, an hour too soon, now he is dead and his tongue is civil, think of God and shun the divil."
A man named Tom Hanrahan lives in Kells now. He is a young man and he is a fairly good poet.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Máire Ní Annracán
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Kells, Co. Kilkenny
- Informant
- Mary Carroll
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 74
- Address
- Kells, Co. Kilkenny
