School: Dalystown (roll number 15307)
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- Dalystown, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: Kathleen Grehan
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“A song written by Michael Brennan Cloneyhague.”
(continued from previous page)"Here's a health to Mr.Daniel
He's a man of fame and skill
If he fell out with you in the morning
calld you fifty crooked aged rogues
He'd forgive you in the evening
And save you from the Vignolds.The Vignolds were priest hunters,
and lived in Newtown. Lowes,
Rochforts and Pilkingtons were
priest-hunters from the same district."James Gilligan - aged 70 gave me this and he heard it from the lips of Michael Brennan, March 1938- Once a man named Bill Meeks went to catch his ass. He caught him in Meeltagh, at about ten o'clock on a moon-lit night. When he started for home the moon went down and every place was very dark and everywhere Bill went there was a bog-hole in front of him. After a while he heard a(continues on next page)