School: An Clochar, Béal an Átha Móir (roll number 13614)
- Location:
- Ballinamore, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: An tSr. Áthracht
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- (continued from previous page)They are going to spray the women,
And they are going to spray the men,
And they are going to spray all sinners to keep them from all sin.
They are going to spray the boots and they are going to spray the clogs,
And sure they'll spray the donkeys too that comes o'er Aughlin Bog.
CHORUSSince spraying was invinted we'll have bad times no more
'Twill banish all misfortune from around Ballinamore
There was also a poet Murray who lived in the same district. But while MacGoverns could do best in praises Murray was the opposite. Here is a sample of Murray's poetry. This happened after a Parliamentary Election of long ago, when none but people who had certain valuations had a vote, and the voting was in public, and anyone qualified to vote, for the choice of the people's candidate came in for a hard criticism and then if they did not vote for the landlord's choice they would like be immediately served with a notice "to quit." Murray often naming and commenting on each individual voter, who voted for the landlord's candidate, wound up with the following verse:-May brim stone smoke them
And sulphur choke them(continues on next page)- Collector
- Carmel Conlon
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 14
- Address
- Ballinamore, Co. Leitrim
- Informant
- Patrick O' Rourke
- Gender
- Male
- Occupation
- Undertaker
- Address
- Ballinamore, Co. Leitrim