School: Lios Uí Ghrifín (roll number 12227)
- Location:
- Lissagriffin, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Seosamh Ó Duibhir
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0398, Page 465
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I tried to stay away some time
But I could not stay with fright
For every day it seems a year
And my head is getting white
I was a lady dazzler
And my gifts they were a gang
But I could see none that I could compare with Dan Hurley's Daughter Han.
- Old Charlie I
Poor Charlie was bought in Bandon,
And he cost about seventy pounds.
He was a credit to Mc. Cathy
Who lived in Joleen town.
He has paid his master well
He's the best horse to be seen
For he can pull thirty hundred weight
From Schull to Joleen. II
Now he is in the home of Incurables
In the vally of Dhurode
He has plenty of grass and water
And he's as lively as a toad
He have plenty mungee(continues on next page)
