School: Scoil na mBráthar, Calainn
- Location:
- Callainn, Co. Chill Chainnigh
- Teacher: An Mháthair M. Síle
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0853, Page 400
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Old Songs (continued)
“As a batch of peelers went out wan night”
(continued from previous page)Peeler.
It is in rain for to complain,
Or give your tongue such bridle, O,
You're absent from your dwelling place
Desordherly and idle, O,
You hoary locks will not prevail
Nor your subline oration, O,
For peelers act will you transport
By your own information, O.Goat
No penal laws did It thransgress
Bu dee or combination, O,
I have no certain place or rest
Here is my dwellin place,
Where I was bread and(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Eibhlín Ní Liatháin
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Na Bánta Buí, Co. Chill Chainnigh