School: Cill Chuisigh (roll number 16296)
- Location:
- Kilcoosy, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: P. Ó Damhnaigh
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- Lizze Lynch
BoheyThis story is by certainly true. This event took place in a house in Killargue during the famine. The direct decent of these people still live in the house in which this sad event took place. The part in which the mother tells of selling the 2lbs of meal is also true. This is as much of the song as is preserved at present.
- I went to Padraig's Caibin one bleak November day.
When the terrors of the famine oe'r this country did sway.
Nine helpless children round the hearth in simles mood had clung.
The colours of their brawny cheeks with lingering farewell hung
With handsome large inquiring eyes that lost their fleshing beam
So motionless they gazed on me but no inquiry came.
The gleeful mirth the childish laugh with(continues on next page) - Collector
- Lizze Lynch
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Boihy, Co. Leitrim
- Informant
- Mrs Kate Lynch
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Boihy, Co. Leitrim
