School: Kilnagross (roll number 12317)
- Location:
- Kilnagross, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: John Hunt
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IV
The mistress said pray take the lad no farther let him seek.
O yes dear father the daughter cried white tears ran down her cheeks.
For those that will work its hard to want and wander for employ
To plough and sow to reap and mow and be a farmer's boy.
V
In course time of he grew a man
The good old farmer died
And left the boy the farm he had and his daughter for his bride
The boy that was the farmer is he oft smiles and thinks with joy
The lucky day he came that way to be a farmer's boy.
- Collector
- Annie Reilly
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Annaghkeenty, Co. Leitrim
- Informant
- Mrs Rose Ann Reilly
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 80
- Address
- Annaghkeenty, Co. Leitrim
