School: The Rower (B.), Inistioge (roll number 15160)

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   laughed, and began to read,

   "Pat Cloney, number one,
   Read this, and then begone
   A police man's look I do disdain
   for I have a brand, and a double rein"

   One day Pat was passing through The Rower graveyard, and he saw a piece of paper on a grave. he went over to the grave and read what was written on the paper. This is what he read.

   "Remember man, as you pass by
   Where you are now, so once was I
   Where I am now, so will you be
   Think on death, and pray for me."

   Then Pat took a pencil and wrote under that:-

   "To pray for you I have no intent,
   For I don't know what road you went."

   Pat died when he was about seventy, and he was buried in The Rower graveyard.

   

   Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.

   History Edit

   Topics

   1. genre
      1. poetry
         1. folk poetry (~9,504)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Patrick Galavan

   Gender

   Male

   Informant

   Michael Murphy

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   52

   Address

   Knockatore, Co. Kilkenny