School: Dún Bhéacháin (Dunbeacon) (roll number 15552)
- Location:
- Dunbeacon, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Tomás Ó Foghlú
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- (continued from previous page)He's mounted up in a holly tree
A bunch of ribons by his side
And the Dunbeacon boys
To be his guide.
Christmas night when turning the spit.
I burned my finger
I feel it yet.
Between the finger and the thum
There rose a blister
As big as a plum
Christmas comes but once a year
And when it comes
It brings good cheet
But now 'tis gone
I'm sorry to say
And it wont come back
For another long year
So up with the kettle
And down with the pan
Give us our answer
And let us be gone(continues on next page)- Collector
- Mary O' Sullivan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Shantullig North, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Mrs M. Moynihan
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 75
- Address
- Shantullig North, Co. Cork