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   Mulla os cionn Arda
   (Mullagh over Ardagh)

   Agus Aoibhinn Éarrach Barra Bán
   (Barra Bán is in blossom)

   Tchithear uaim Urris agus Malainn
   (I see from me Urris and Malin)

   Agus Cnoch na Dára gach uile ann.
   (And Cnoc na Dara every time)

   II

   
   Cnoch a Dhannaí, Lag is Creana
   (Two places in Malin)

   Glach na Druadha, sin agus Drung
   (A place in Malin and Moville)

   Lag a Shuraidhe, Coill is Clára
   (Three places in the Isle of Doagh)

   Agus ar Anach ólann dram
   (And in Anaugh they drink the dram - dram was a kind of whiskey)

   
   III

   
   Chuaidh mé go Caibre, Collus Leathan
   (I went to Cairbre and Collus-Leatan)

   Chuir mé Béarla roimhe le na angeann
   (I talked to them in English)

   Chuir mé Orbonaigh (?) ag éirghe deirce
   (I put protestants gathering charity)

   Go bhfoiridh treith mé sin ar a linn
   (Had I not the good qualities that time)

   
   Mary Doherty
   Cloughfin,
   Clonmany.

   I got this from:-
   Joseph Doherty
   Cloughfin

   

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   History Edit

   Topics

   1. genre
      1. poetry
         1. folk poetry (~9,504)

   Language

   Irish

   Collector

   May Doherty

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Cloghfin, Co. Donegal

   Informant

   Joseph Doherty

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Cloghfin, Co. Donegal