School: Béal Átha Grean (roll number 9820)
- Location:
- Ballyagran, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Dónall Ó Cuill
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0497, Page 341
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- (continued from previous page)crude verses of his.My duck sailed away by the purling stream
And went in great haste to the land of Cloonee
'Twas there she met lasses their hair it was plaited
And with them she spent the best part of her day
My duck laid a clutch for Peg Jones and Nell Burke
Likewise for the Culls who lived in Cloonee
Poll Jones and Nell Corbet and Cathrine Goeman
And likewise Jack Falvey had some of the breed.The Culls mentioned here are ancestors of Eamon De Valera Taoieach Eireann. They lived at Cloonee that time.
Near Drewscourt (Baile an File) we have a field Ard Buala. Now some old people insist that this was an old battle field - a lot of bones having been found in a gravel pit close by. Others say the name means simply the high milking graound.
Near Castletown to the north of Ballygran we find Graigue where(continues on next page)
- Informant
- Daniel Quill
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- Parent
- Gender
- Male
