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 614
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- (continued from previous page)who came over from England and purchased the place. The whole townland is the scene made famous by Carlton's Novel 1794 - 1869 which I now record in this book.
- "Oh, rise up, Willy Reilly, and come along with me,
I mean for to go with you and leave this counterie,
To leave my father's dwellings, his houses and free land,
And away goes Willy Reilly and his dear Colleen Bawn.They go by hills and mountains, and by yon lonesome plain,
Through shady groves and valleys, all dangers to refrain,
But her father followed after her with a well-armed band,
And taken was Reilly and his dear Colleen Bawn.(continues on next page)
