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1. Local Poets - The Coolamoney Turf Cadgers (continued)

   

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   from that to Dromin.

   And Christy McDaniel I nearly forgot,
   Himself and his father made up a plot:
   To go to Drogheda was their intent
   With a crib of brown turf to make up the rent.

   So there's Thomas Gartlan, to finish the joke,
   Since the turf it got cheap he near cut his throat,
   He seldom went out but he made a bad sale
   And to pull in his loss he began to sell meal.

   Verse 1, Squeezers means a narrow crib cart. Verse 2, Deceiver and Boyne View were two ponies.
   Mae O'Neill, Tullakeel, Ardee, Co. Louth.
   Verses recited by Lce. Carroll, Tullakeel, Ardee - Coolamoney was the ancient name of part (or all?) of the townland of Stormanstown. The road which runs by the school is called Coolamoney Lane: it was made a public road about twenty years ago.-P.Ó.C.

   

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   History Edit

   Topics

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

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Mae O' Neill

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Tullakeel, Co. Louth

   Informant

   Laurence Carroll

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Tullakeel, Co. Louth