School: Barrow (roll number 11850)
- Location:
- Barrow, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Ml. Ó hUallacháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0438, Page 117
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- (continued from previous page)Ardfert. The people used to call him Randy Slasher. His name was John Stack. He had the gift of versemaking from his birth.
The name of the song he made is Bob McCowen. He made the song about Bob McCowen and he was praising him in the song so that Bob would give him work and would pay him well for it. He composed it in English. He was a labourer and he used to go about from place to place working. He was not very educated. The people used to look upon him as a very funny man. Some people have his song yet.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Tomás Ó Dubháin
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- John Devane
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 61
- Occupation
- Farmer
