School: Cluain an Iubhair (roll number 15213)
- Location:
- Cloonanure, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Séamus Ó Háinlighe
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0187, Page 389
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A Song Composed Locally (continued)
“Come all ye county Sligo boys,”
(continued from previous page)the "big bridge", the gaffer was standing by. One of those boys he asked a job and this was his reply, "peel off your coats and go to work, for I want many more, for come you in your thousands boys to drain the "Owen Mór". IV
With pick and spade a dyke they made to let the water run.
They threw the stuff upon the bank, and made the bottom like a floor, and the gaffer cried "faith ye are the boys to drain the "Owen Mór".
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And now as ye are at the job pre-send it all the way. And do not stop till you take every drop above from Michael Murray. When the flood is on the river, it all will run away. And not a drop(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Agnes Rogers
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Gorteen, Co. Sligo
- Informant
- Thomas Rogers
- Relation
- Relative (other than parent or grandparent)
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 27
- Address
- Gorteen, Co. Sligo