School: St. Cronan's Longford Wood, An Teampoll Mór (roll number 6662)
- Location:
- Longfordwood, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Mícheál Ó Catháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0547, Page 443
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A Local Song (continued)
“You farmers and freeholders and countrymen of mine, ¶ Come rally round till I relate the scenery we have seen”
(continued from previous page)And for the road we did proceed with many a cheer and joke .
Right down through Ballinamoe we came we viewed each plain an d lawn .
Until we arrived in proper time at Cramp's of Danganbawn.
The horsepower it was planted and the members were all there
The table was erected and the spindle put in gear ,
The driver was on the seat and ready for to go.
It was our delight to get a pint of Cassidy and Co.
The man who get's Hogan's thresher and fit for market day
And he is sure to get the highest price at the malthouse of RoscreaComposed by Michael Doolan , Boola , RoscreaNote. The was an old man who died twenty years ago