School: Druim Bréan Lios (roll number 15029)
- Location:
- Drumbreanlis, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Eibhlín Nic Ghuidhir
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0228, Page 158
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- (continued from previous page)When they went through the Street
The Shopkeepers closed their doors
To Save them from the Street
XXV
So Come all you pretty fair Maids
That want to change your lives
To whom you may be cautious
Your flitting for to drive
XXVI
What Kelly did I cannot say
But Murphy got the sack
It's said by some
For bride or, Groom
A whip he'll never crack.Notes
Smith* Tom Smith Drumbreanlis was in the habit of going without socks
Sprat* Sprat was a bookseller who lived between Drumbreanlis and Carrigallen
Long Ned - Still living - a very tall man who used to drive the mail car fro m Belturbet to Carrigallen.
Briody was a draper in Carrigallen
The rhyme was written by Johnie Walshe
- Informant
- Johnnie Walshe
- Gender
- Male
