School: Baile an Áird (C.)
- Location:
- Ballinard, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Áine Ní Dhomhnaill
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0517, Page 102
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If you travelled through Limerick. Kerry and Clare,
From the town of Tralee to the plains of Kildare
Such a vagabond landlord you'd never meet there,
As the tyrant that rules Ballyloundash.
He's both grasping and grinding and a selfish pigaun
He has got an arc-luachair inside his ciseán
For he's bawling at night and he's bawling at dawn,
For the rack-rents around Ballyloundash.
He borrowed a brattle and built if of late
To frighten the tenants around his estate
But when gathering rack-rents he would not abate
for the tenants around Ballyloundash.II
The sheriff he came on a cold winter's day,(continues on next page)
