School: An Drom (Drom Thurles) (roll number 585)
- Location:
- Drom, Co. Tipperary
- Teachers: Pilib Ó Ó Muireadhaigh Pádraig Ó Cléirigh
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- 5. Joseph Fanning who lived in the parish of Drom Co. Tipperary, composed a song by the name of "The Girld with the green gown on." He was born about the year 1868 and he was about sixty years of age when he died. He was buried in the old church-yard in Drom. He was a great scholar and was very well educated.
Charles Bourke of the parish of Drom Co. Tipperary made a song called "Maura Ruadh." He was born about the year 1847. In the time of the Fenians he went to America.
- Collector
- Mary Fogarty
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Drom, Co. Tipperary
- Informant
- Jeremiah Fogarty
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Drom, Co. Tipperary
- 6. A man by the name of John Long in the townland of Killahagan, parish of Drom, Co. Tipperary was a poet. He was seventy years of age when he dided. he is buried in St. Patrick's Cemetery which is in Thurles. He wrote a song by the name of "Rorardstown Goat." This poet was a farmer. He was about twenty-nine or thirty years of age when he composed this song. The people praised him greatly for doing so. They also attributed great powers to this poet. The song is still(continues on next page)
