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School: Kilsarcon (C.) (roll number 14798)

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Kilsarkan West, Co. Kerry
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Caitrín Ní Dhálaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0445, Page 402

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    The following are the poets that lived in the district long ago Mick Casey Gneeveguilla and Jack Welsh Comeenabush, the O'Connors of Kisarcon and Pat Donovan of Cordal. The following was composed by Mick Casey.
    Not far from Lisheen, I began my life, w.
    Where the girls are so comical, I must take a wife.
    The black girls smoke, and the brown girls snuff and the green, blue, and yellow, drink all sorts of stuff.

    Chorus
    Beware of these lassies, where'er you meet them,
    Pass them by, without speaking in country or street,
    Or if you dont do it, believe what I say,
    You will be sorry to-morrow next day.

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    The 14th of February I was coming home from the fair, I was quickly overtaken - coming down Farrencaol.
    By one of these lassies that lived at Lisheen, she, said she was Lizzie, and so she had been.
    (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
    Han Healy
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Knocknaharan, Co. Kerry
    Informant
    Timothy Sullivan
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    86
    Address
    Carker, Co. Kerry