School: Clochar na Trócaire, Gráig na Manach
- Location:
- Graiguenamanagh, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: Sr. Agatha
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Local Song
“O Butlers castle my darling ¶ 'Tis lonesome your looking to-day”
Local SongO Butlers castle my darling
"Tis lonesome your looking to-day
There's nothing but jackdaws and starlings
Since poor Robert Dane went away.
It is there where the garden and tennis
And chimneys to keep the place hot.
If you want to inquire the old people
Will show the mark of the potO' bad luck to you Oliver Cromwell
And all your cantackerous men
You came over there like a pirate
With a cast-load of peelers to Glynn
But the Tinnihinch boys kept possesionHe bound them all down to to the place(continues on next page)- Collector
- Maggie Carroll
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Killeen, Co. Kilkenny
- Informant
- Mr James Bolger
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballyogan, Co. Kilkenny