School: Owning Convent (roll number 16430)
- Location:
- Ónainn, Co. Chill Chainnigh
- Teacher: Sr. M. Bernadette
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0844, Page 116
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Ye may travel all the nation,
An' call at every station,
From the pebbled strand of Arran
To the Wicklow hills so brown;
Take the Orangemen in Derry.
And the Fenian boy of Kerry,
Yet you cannot match the muscle of
A Boy from Hugginstown.2
He can give a nate left-hander,
Be me sowl, a great dale grander
Than a welt from a sledge hammer or a kick from "Carty's mule";
An' the way he'd paint yer faythurs
Puts the blush on owl Dame Nature's;
Faith, yer friend id hardly know ye, tho' you went with them to school.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- M. Nolan
- Address
- An Garraí Dubh, Co. Chill Chainnigh
- Informant
- T. Nolan
- Age
- 50
- Address
- Baile Roibín, Co. Chill Chainnigh
