School: An Drom (Drom Thurles) (roll number 585)

On this page

1. Local Poets

   

   Share Share Post

   

   You are not logged in, but you are welcome to contribute a transcription anonymously. In this case, your IP address will be stored in the interest of quality control.

   5. Joseph Fanning who lived in the parish of Drom Co. Tipperary, composed a song by the name of "The Girld with the green gown on." He was born about the year 1868 and he was about sixty years of age when he died. He was buried in the old church-yard in Drom. He was a great scholar and was very well educated. Charles Bourke of the parish of Drom Co. Tipperary made a song called "Maura Ruadh." He was born about the year 1847. In the time of the Fenians he went to America.

   Save Cancel

   Transcription guide »

   By clicking the save button you agree that your contribution will be available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License and that a link to dúchas.ie is sufficient as attribution.

   Topics

   1. genre
      1. poetry
         1. folk poetry (~9,504)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Mary Fogarty

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Drom, Co. Tipperary

   Informant

   Jeremiah Fogarty

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Drom, Co. Tipperary

2. Local Poets

   

   Share Share Post

   6. A man by the name of John Long in the townland of Killahagan, parish of Drom, Co. Tipperary was a poet. He was seventy years of age when he dided. he is buried in St. Patrick's Cemetery which is in Thurles. He wrote a song by the name of "Rorardstown Goat." This poet was a farmer. He was about twenty-nine or thirty years of age when he composed this song. The people praised him greatly for doing so. They also attributed great powers to this poet. The song is still

   (continues on next page)

   

   Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.

   History Edit