School: Achadh Mín, Dundalk (roll number 3407)
- Location:
- Aghameen, Co. Louth
- Teacher: Bean Uí Riada
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- (continued from previous page)him in the face
"Beneath this sod there lies" said he, "last of a noble race"
I asked to hear the story told he only shook his head
"Youll here it all to-night my boy before you sleep in bed".
IV
Beside a turf sod fire that night we all quite coy sat
The schoolmaster and mistress, Tom, John, Mick, Owen, and Pat
And in the corner, on the hob, sat Kate and dear old Ned
And though we heard his well-known voice we scarce could see his head.
V
He took the cutty from his mouth and thus the tale began
My father told it by this hearth when a grey stooped old man
A cushla, we were courting then we'd sit on that settle-bed
Ah, when he came to the dying part how we shook with fear and dread
VI
About two hundred years a-back there lived(continues on next page)- Collector
- Joe Rice
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Mullaghattin, Co. Louth
- Informant
- Sheila Rice
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Aghameen, Co. Louth