School: Baile Uaitéir (Walterstown) (roll number 12281)

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1. Poets

   

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   The only local poet of any note, was a man by the name of Patrick Coakley locally known as "Pats". He lived at Ballydulea cottages, about thirty years ago. He used to compose his poems in English. The writer is of opinion that his poems are still in printed form in a cottage in the vicinity of Cobh. Many of the subjects of his poems concerned, Cuskinny, Bennet's Court, and Tuberloneen.

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   Topics

   1. genre
      1. poetry
         1. folk poetry (~9,504)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Margaret Wilson

   Gender

   Female

   Informant

   James Wilson

   Relation

   Parent

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Walterstown, Co. Cork

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   “There were people by the name of Penrose living in Belgrove.”

   

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   There were people by the name of Penrose living in Belgrove. A boy was crossing the fields to the Station. He had the priest's vestments with him. When the man Penrose saw the boy crossing the field he asked him where he was going.
   The boy told him, and the man

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