School: Baile Giolla tSionáin (C.)
- Location:
- Ballygiltenan Upper, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Máiréad, Bean Uí Chathaláin
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“A fair is held in sweet Glin town At the dawning of each year On the first of dark December When Christmas times are near...”
(continued from previous page)Prize cattle do come in
And they all will wear their medals
At the Winters fair of Glin.Tis there you would see the sporting boys.
Going out for exercise
With loaded butts and plants of ash
They break each others eyes
Through heads and broken noses
The blood will freely swim
From Connell's forge, down to the quay
At the Winters fair of Glin.Those Drumrisk boys are men of science
They have a record made
I'm told by good authorities
They knocked out all the foes
The curlew with his gallant band
He then had to give in
And seek for police protection
At the Winters fair of Glin
- Collector
- Kathleen Lynch
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Glashapullagh, Co. Limerick
- Informant
- John Mulvihill
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 36
- Occupation
- Labourer
- Address
- Glin, Co. Limerick