School: Nuadhchongbháil (Nohoval) (roll number 10326)
- Location:
- Scart, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Siobhán, Bean Uí Riada
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0444, Page 242
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- (continued from previous page)And I would get leg-bail
They bear no weight in what he says
He being as long in jail.
He also wrote a few verses about a girl who he thought would marry him.
I thought I was the fair-haired boy
But now I'm turning black
She went away in [?] car
And to me she turned her back.
Some years ago the young people used go up to Dan Healy's house; father of the present Margaret Healy who now lived in the old house. They used to be dancing there.
One night when they were going up they [?] a wooden gate out of a gap inJones' field. Some time before this a gun was taken from Blenner's Hasset of BallySeedy and Seán made a poem about them.
Blenner Husset's gun was better fun
like-wise, his sword and shield
A white thorn bush would do right-well
In a gap going in a field!
He also made one about John Sugrues house. John now works around the district in the farms houses of John Griffin of Glounbawn and Patrick Daly's of Kilfalleny.
Sugrue may brag of his house in the bog(continues on next page)
- Informant
- Mrs M. Hogan
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 59
- Occupation
- Labourer's wife
- Address
- Gortatlea, Co. Kerry
