School: Lismacaffry
- Location:
- Lismacaffry, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: Ml. Ó Gamhna
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0739, Page 362
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- (continued from previous page)truth I declare.
I came to Mullingar to see the
big fair.
And for to stop there I was lonesome and loth.
I came down to see the Mc
Guines that lived at the Float.
When I came there I was
shocked and dismayed to
see the bushes cut that once
lent me a shade.
And people there gazing that
n'er drank a drop,
Like myself got dismayed
when they saw the new shop.
The next new arrival came
by the next train.
Miss Kiernan they called
her Miss Push was the same.(continues on next page)
- Informant
- Christy Newman
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 57
- Address
- Coolnagun, Co. Westmeath
