School: Ballybay (Hall St.) (roll number 12378)
- Location:
- Ballybay, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: C. Ó Maonaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0938, Page 347
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You are not logged in, but you are welcome to contribute a transcription anonymously. In this case, your IP address will be stored in the interest of quality control.By clicking the save button you agree that your contribution will be available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License and that a link to dúchas.ie is sufficient as attribution. - Sam Mc Murray, Robert Gray, and Robert Guinn are all good poets they can make songs or dances and concerts. They compose them in English.
They occasionally complete one with the other privately and help one another at making songs.
One man is a farmer and the others carpenters. They make their songs at night. They are all good scholars. Their songs are sung all over the district. - The old people still tell stories about the Great Famine of 1846-47. The people died(continues on next page)
