School: An Mhainistir, Móin Rátha (roll number 14243)
- Location:
- Mountrath, Co. Laois
- Teacher: Br Columban Ó Cróinín
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- One Winter's day, long long ago,
When I was a little fellow,
A piper wandered to our door,
Grey headed, blind, and yellow,
And oh! how glad was my young heart,
Though earth and sky look'd dreary
To see the stranger and his dog
Poor "Pinch" and Coach O'Leary
(II)And when he stowed away his "bag",
Cross-barr'd with green and yellow,
I thought and said, "In Ireland's ground
There is not so fine a fellow,"
And Fineen Burke and Shane Magee,
And Eily, Kate and Mary,
Rushed in with panting haste to "see",
And "welcome" Coach O'Leary".
(III)Oh! God be with those happy times,
Oh! God be with my childhood,
When I bare-footed roamed all day,
Bird-nesting in the wild wood,(continues on next page)- Collector
- Peter Phelan
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- William Kelly
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Mountrath, Co. Laois