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School: Drumkeelanmore (roll number 12525)

Location:
Drumkeelan More, Co. Leitrim
Teacher:
Mary Mc Rann
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0208, Page 361

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  1. Drumshanbo in 1904

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    The folks around Drumshanbo
    Have peculiar pleasant ways
    I'll try to eulogise them
    While deserving Lyttle prays.
    My muses Coyle around my brain
    To aid my mystic flight
    So hither call upon a Clarke
    To set it down in Black and White
    A Jolly group upon the Lee
    What joy their Carroll brings
    They never charge a Price or Fee
    To see our Boylan springs
    They put Currans in Farrells fine
    And bake them Browne and Reid
    They never Quail, they wade the Ford
    To Wynne their Daly bread
    No idle Twaddle here we have
    Or Cowan at the jumps
    Our Friars never wear a Hood
    Our Campells have no humps
    (Local names are underlined)
    (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)
    2. place-space-environment
      1. local lore, place-lore (~10,595)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Mary Ellen Whelan
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Drumgorman, Co. Leitrim
    Informant
    William Doyle
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Drumshanbo, Co. Leitrim