School: Béal an Átha Móir (B.)
- Location:
- Ballinamore, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Seán Ó Heslin
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- (continued from previous page)our brave boys did not fail.
Till we showed the scum,
We were the sons of poor old
Granuaile.
(6)If you were to see our Irish
boys,
When the balls began to fly,
They did not discommode us,
Sure they only passed us by,
We fought them on courageously
Of men we had but few,
to see them fall,
you would compare it,
To the plain of Waterloo.
(7)Fifty pounds upon the ground,
They fired at our men,
But fortune well had favoured
us,
They could not pierce our skin.
At our night side we had a
guide,(continues on next page)- Collector
- William Farrell
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Stradermot, Co. Leitrim
- Informant
- Tom Creamer
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Stradermot, Co. Leitrim