School: Gort an Locha (roll number 1414)
- Location:
- Gortalough, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: S. Ó Docraigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0182, Page 584
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- (continued from previous page)Messengers friends
Francis Your names and you business with the priest
Mary and Brigid Gaidin. We are Mary and Brigid Gaidin. We have come from Teac-na-Gceallats Dubh on the part of the bride to arrange about the marriage in the morning
Francis The marriage will take place (in) at Corrigeen-na-mara. There the birds and bridesmaids are to wait until the Saggarth's come.
(Mary and Brigid Gaidin leave)
Bernard And who besides the priests of the law.
Francis There are three beasts which must be destroyed at sight. There are the wolf, the tory and the priest.
Bernard "The Tory" and who pray is the tory.
Francis Every Irishman is a "Tory" Here is a good song. Listen well (Francis reads He; brother tige. "I went to the wood and shot a tory."
I went again and shot another
Was it the same, or was it his(continues on next page)
