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School: Lugnaskeehan (roll number 6562)

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Lugnaskeehan, Co. Leitrim
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0202, Page 476

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    There was one poet in this district and his name was Nicholas McCarthy. He was about eighty years when he died and he was buried in the Abbey in Dromahair. Nicholas McCarthy composed "The death of Patrick Grogan" and "The mission in Killargue". McCarthy was neither a tradesman nor a farmer. He could read and write. The people liked McCathy well. He died in 1903. Any person he saw he could make a song about him.
    The Death of Patrick Grogan.
    Attend ye sons and daughters all
    And loving mother dear.
    A sad and mournful story
    I have to let you hear
    Concerning Patrick Grogan
    That we've all known heretofore
    But long around Drumkeerin town.
    We'll never see him more.
    Convenient to Drumkeerin town
    Pat Grogan there did dwell
    And through the country far and near
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. poetry
        1. folk poetry (~9,504)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Franics Murphy
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Lugnaskeehan, Co. Leitrim
    Informant
    Francis Murphy
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    60
    Address
    Lugnaskeehan, Co. Leitrim