School: Cluain Tuirc (C.)
- Location:
- Cloonturk, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Máire Ní Gharaidh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0217, Page 073
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- (continued from previous page)Our residence is quite small,
Comprised of three acres of land,
Although its not big it holds us all,
And suits us very grand.
3
There are two lakes and a river,
Not far from my abode,
All situated in a cosy place,
About a mile from the public road..
4
We excel almost every other townland
Some people may ask why.
Well its because we've a doctor
And his pay is never high.
5
He is my grandfather. and and he is very
old,
Everybody likes him, 'cause he cures
them from the cold.
6
He's a;so a great old "Folklorist"
And he tells me many tales,
About the things that happened,
To all our good old Gaels.
7
We call him "Doctor Charlie"
But Charles Reynolds is his right(continues on next page)
- Informant
- Mary Ahern
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 13
