School: Fearth Mór (Brooklawn) (roll number 15508)
- Location:
- Fartamore, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Treasa, Bean Mhic Aonghusa
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0040, Page 0263
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- Rafftery ( Anthony Raftery ) was a poet who lived at Mangan's in Liskeavy. This is a distance of about six miles from Tuam.One day as he was walking through a village he met a man named John Mooney. This man was after coming out from a house; he wanted a drink but the woman of the house refused him.Rafftery turned him in again, and he began to make a poem.Rafftery an Poet agus Seán O Mooney.Tabhair dúinn deoch le hanam a ndaoineThe woman got afraid and she said to him." Ara tiúbhrad tiúbhradh
Tuige na dtiúbhrad "There were a hundred heads of cabbage stolen from a man in the village. The priest was talking about it to the people the next Sunday. He spoke to Rafftery afterwards about it:-Go cinnte bhí an oiread ann a dhéanfadh paráiste
Dá mbéad sé gléasta le bagún feoil rósta.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Maighréad Ní Dhuinn
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Pat Dunne
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Kilconly, Co. Galway
- Informant
- Thomas Dunne
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Fartamore, Co. Galway
