School: Clonfide, Mullingar
- Location:
- Cloonfide, Co. Longford
- Teacher: Bean Uí Scealaigh
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- O Paddy dear and did you hear,
The news that's going round,
Our parish Priest, brave Father Pete,
Has got a slice of ground,
A speckled cow,
Like John Mc Cormacks cows,
And leap the ditch into Ned Kearney's play,
And clip his prata brow,
Hurrah for the Carrickedmond men,
Hurrah three times again,
And a lusty cheer for the sagart dear,
And for the Carrickedmond men,
II
For milk she is a toper,
And a bucket she can flow,
For that speckled cow it took,
A prize in the Longford show,
But when she clipped the prata brow,
We though she'd not survive,
But now she is a bonny cow,
The fattest cow alive,
Hurrah the Carrickedmond men,
May be very glad to day,(continues on next page)- Collector
- James Lennon
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 12
- Address
- Doory, Co. Longford