School: Annalitten
- Location:
- Annalittin, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: A. Mac Suibhne
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“It was on a Monday morn, ¶ The weather it being clear, ¶ When Maguire and Mc Caffrey ¶ Started for Dunleer.”
(continued from previous page)I have no more to say.
Maguire and McCaffrey
From their master strayed away.They made a resolution
And to this day did agree
That they would never go a-roving
Except to Mullaghance.- Almost forty years ago, Tom Maguire and Owen McCaffrey went to the harvest in Meath. Tom Maguire of Aghadreenan and Owen McCaffrey of Tahlagh were employed by my grand-father. These men were of the same age and were companions. Owen McCaffrey is dead but Tom Maguire is still living. He is seventy three years of age now.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Róis Níc A' Bháird
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Monygorbet, Co. Monaghan