School: Crosspatrick, Johnstown
- Location:
- Crosspatrick, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: P. Ó Foghlú
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0869, Page 134
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- (continued from previous page)The hearty brave young Russell who cruelly did assail
And left his aged parent in sorrow to bewail.
The daisies deck his cold, cold brows
The dews fall o'er his face
The banshee sings her elegies around this lonely place
Beside his brave ancestors great from Feartagh famed of yore.
His life yet lives while many grieved his absence from Bawnmore.
- Come all you loyal heroes wherever that you be,
I pray you'll pay attention and listen unto me
Concerning two royals that stepped out the other day
On Wednesday last in Holy Week in search of human prey
They rambled to Bill Doheny's where they often got a glass.
What did they meet tied in the ditch but Stephen Russell's ass.
"We have a case, We have a case," bold Brady he did cry,
And nimbly stepped into the ditch this ass for to until(continues on next page) - Collector
- Margaret Grady
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Michael Dwyer
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 83
