School: Baile an Doirín (C) (roll number 7552)
- Location:
- Baile an Doirín, Co. na Gaillimhe
- Teacher: Treasa Bean Uí Bheirn
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0033B, Page 02_047
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- This song was composed by a very wise man and he was a poet at the same time. He lived in the parish of Clarenbridge and he called the song by the name of "Charming Sweet Tyrone". -:
I will now sit down to pen these lines
Which I'm inclined to do
Concerning Tyrone a lovely place
Which I did lately view
I did survey the court all round
As I did walk alone
But never did I see a place so grand
As "Charming Sweet Tyrone"(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Kathleen Flannery
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- John Flannery
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 48
- Address
- Baile an Doirín, Co. na Gaillimhe
- Informant
- Michael Fahy
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 78
- Address
- An Cartrún, Co. na Gaillimhe
