School: Sliabh na Cille (roll number 14513)
- Location:
- Slievenakilla, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Peadar Mac Fhlannchadha
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- Patrick McParltan of Slievenakilla could sing "The Rose of Ardee" and "The Maid of Sweet Gurteen". Mrs. Nancy McHugh of Tullynaha was a good singer. She could sing "The Little Brown Jug" and "Green Grow the Rushes O!" and "The Peeler and the Goat".Frank Gilchrist was a good storyteller.(Collected by Brighid Loughlin from her grandmother Mrs. Brighid Mc Gourty of Tullynaha, Co. Leitrim)
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- Collector
- Margaret Mc Gourty
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- James Mc Gourty
- Relation
- Grandparent
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Slievenakilla, Co. Leitrim
- Pat McGovern and James Callaghan of Knockacullen, Aughnadeelin, were good singers, also James McGovern and Thomas Meehan of Ballinamore.James Darcy of Tullyvacan was a good singer also James Dolan of Tullynamoyle. Pat Doyle of Aughrim, Ballinaglera was the champion storyteller of this parish. Michael Boyle of Tullyban was a good storyteller also Hugh Rynn of Tullynaha, Balllinaglera.Collected by Anthony Cornyn from his father, Peter Cornyn of Tullynaha.