School: Baile Locha Riabhach (Clochar)
- Location:
- Loughrea, Co. Galway
- Teacher: An tSr. M. Proinnsias
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A Local Song (continued)
“About the people who lived”
(continued from previous page)and here is where you would see,
the great old Irish dancers of the west,
the women folk with their grand red petticoats
and their small plad shawls on their shoulders
neat low shoes and black stockings,
dancing so gay to that famous old tune
"The rocky road to Dublin".III
The cocks and the hens
who were reared in this little village
would come down from their roost
and go out into the little yards,
on a Sunday night,
to listen to the strains
of those great old Irish melodies
played by old John Monohan on his violinIV
This beautiful village has vanished,
grand stories no more do we hear,
but the rumble and bumble of motors
electricity now in the air
that violin which once gave the music
to people, light hearted and gay,
has passed to some friends o'er the waters,
From this beautiful hill at Loughrea.- Collector
- Martin Kelly
- Gender
- Male