School: Ros Inbhir (roll number 14501)

Location:
Rossinver, Co. Leitrim
Teacher:
Ml. Mac Aoidh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0191, Page 260

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    where the hare and sheep for shelter seek in the winter stormy days. In the summer time the boys and girls to this hill they go with and with love in their eye as the day passes by on the lovely Melvin side.
    On a winters night when the moon shines bright and they stars do twinkle above. Its to some neighbor's house we go to meet-they girls with love we will sit and chat about this and that or dance a heel with pride
    Where eve from I can find none like they girls on the Melvin side.
    Adieu Rossinver Cemetery famed for your beauty scene
    Your castle halls and crested walls decked out with ivy green
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. poetry
        1. folk poetry (~9,504)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Michael G. Hughes
    Gender
    Male
    Occupation
    Teacher
    Address
    Rossinver, Co. Leitrim
    Informant
    Terence Connolly
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    66
    Address
    Larganhugh, Co. Leitrim