1. dúchas.ie
  2. The Schools' Collection
  3. Stoneyford, Thomastown

School: Stoneyford, Thomastown (roll number 3029)

Location:
Stonyford, Co. Kilkenny
Teacher:
Finghín Mac Íobhair
Browse
Mode:
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0849, Page 125

Archival Reference

The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0849, Page 125

Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.

See copyright details.

Download

Open data

Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

  1. XML School: Stoneyford, Thomastown
  2. XML Page 125
  3. XML “A Local Song”

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

  1. A Local Song

    “Twas on the forth of January to Stoneyford we went”

    Share Share Post
    'Twas on the fourth of January to Stoneyford we went,
    The night was rough and stormy but on pleasure I was bent
    I travelled with a party on Kilkenny's outside Car
    To patronise the cricket dance
    With friends from near and far.

    II
    The room was lent for this event, the truth to you I tell,
    By the sporting Kate O'Grady from the well known Lamp Hotel,
    Right well 'twas decorated with wax upon the floor,
    And the laurels that hung 'oer our heads were plucked beside the Nore.
    Written by Patrick O'Connor Jerpoint 1913 in honour of the Cricket dance held in the Lamp Hotel Stoneyford.

    Told by Jack Dunn, 50
    Ennisnag,
    Stoneyford
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. poetry
        1. folk poetry (~9,504)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Vera Dunn
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Stonyford, Co. Kilkenny
    Informant
    Jack Dunn
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    50
    Address
    Ennisnag, Co. Kilkenny