School: Baile Meadhonach (roll number 10675)
- Location:
- Ballymanagh, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Micheal Ó Raghallaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0036, Page 0163
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He is old enough to marry now,
I think he is fifty nine,
He wants a son to drive his cows,
Who get will have his coin."
McMahon died in the year 1924.
He was sixty-two years of age. He is buried in Dooris, Kinvara, Co Galway. One day he was talking to children on their way to school, and he asked a slate of them. They gave it to him, and he wrote on it this verse
The world is round, and it goes on wheels,
And death is a thing that everyone feels,(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Brigid Hynes
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Colesgrove, Co. Galway
- Informant
- Stephen Donohoe
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballymanagh, Co. Galway
