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School: Clochar na Trócaire, Gráig na Manach

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Graiguenamanagh, Co. Kilkenny
Teacher:
Sr. Agatha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0857, Page 452

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    “O Butlers castle my darling ¶ 'Tis lonesome your looking to-day”

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    Local Song
    O 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 pot
    O' 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 possesion
    He bound them all down to to the place
    (continues on next page)
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. poetry
        1. folk poetry (~9,504)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Maggie Carroll
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Killeen, Co. Kilkenny
    Informant
    Mr James Bolger
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Ballyogan, Co. Kilkenny