School: An Clochar, Cara Droma Ruisc

Location:: Carrick-on-Shannon, Co. Leitrim / Co. Roscommon
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“As I roved out one evening, down by the river side...”

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As I roved out one evening, down by a river side, I heard a couple talking as they walked hand in hand, and to hear their conversation I eagerly did stand, and to hear their conversation I drew nigh to a bush, till at length he said “my charmer I thought I had my wish”. “Ah then Johnny, dearest, Johnny what is that you mean?” “Ah then Nancy, lovely Nancy, the truth I do explain, to become a Roman Catholic as I have now described, for I see that you’r a heretic that never was baptized.”
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Language

English

Collector
Kathleen Carr
Gender

Female
Address

Carrick-on-Shannon, Co. Leitrim / Co. Roscommon

Informant
Mrs Margaret Mulvey
Gender

Female
Address

Carrick-on-Shannon, Co. Leitrim / Co. Roscommon

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