School: Monaghan (Clochar Lughaidh) (roll number 359)
- Location:
- Monaghan, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: Sr Déaglán
Open data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Monaghan (Clochar Lughaidh)
- XML Page 315
- XML “Rhymes”
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- When English began to be spoken generally one of the first uses to which it was put by the country people was the making of rhymes about their localities, afterwards ballads, and then short songs. The following are some of the local rhymes about the Counties:
County Meath for bread and cheese
County Cavan for robbers and thieves
County Monaghan for bottle and glass
And County Tyrone for a pretty lass
About the towns:
Carrickmacross and Crossmaglen
Where there are more rogues than men
About the streets:
Clones Street for a penny roll
The Diamond for sugar 0' candy
Glasslough Street is a dirty hole
But Dublin Street is the dandy
Clones Street was the old name for Park Street and the part of Market St.(continues on next page)- Collector
- Dorothy Cox
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Monaghan, Co. Monaghan