1. dúchas.ie
  2. The Schools' Collection
  3. Gortnaskeagh

School: Gortnaskeagh (roll number 16321)

Location:
Gortnaskeagh, Co. Leitrim
Teacher:
Anna Nic Aodha
Browse
Mode:
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0199, Page 167

Archival Reference

The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0199, Page 167

Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.

See copyright details.

Download

Open data

Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

  1. XML School: Gortnaskeagh
  2. XML Page 167
  3. XML “Fairy Forts”
  4. XML “Local Poets”

Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.

On this page

  2. Local Poets

    Share Share Post
    There are two kinds of poets namely poets who compose songs and poems for means of living and others who have means of living and compose songs and poems for past time [pastime] at intervals. In some districts poets are much scarcer than others. This district is privileged with three very famous poets namely Bartley Harte, Pat Eames, John F. Connigham. Bartley Harte resides in the townland of Gortnaskeagh and in the parish of Drumlease. This man composed a lot of songs. These are the names of the songs he composed, "The Paddy Horse" and the "New Ballaley." This man never got those songs published but he gave them away to the neighbours who could sing them.
    John F. Connigham resides in the townland of Moragh and in the parish of
    (continues on next page)
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. poetry
        1. folk poetry (~9,504)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Maggie Kelly
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Ballynaboll, Co. Leitrim
    Informant
    John Joe Mc Hugh
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    43
    Address
    Ballynaboll, Co. Leitrim