School: Guaire (Xtian Bros.) (roll number 12772)
- Location:
- Gorey, Co. Wexford
- Teacher: S. Murphy
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- (continued from previous page)26following the death of Mrs. Callaghan. Her abode was at Riverchapel and on the departure of the family for Liverpool they took the cross with them. The Miss Lily Nolan who sent the cross to Mrs. Dunne is the daughter of the above-mentioned Mrs Mary Nolan. It may be of interest to add that when the cross was in the possession of Mary Callaghan it was given to the late Sean R. Etchingham to be exhibited at a Feis in Wexford.Collected by :
Charles Hobbs, Ardamine, Riverchapel
From :
Mrs. Davis. Riverchapel. - Ballad of '98
Author - UnknownThe Boys of the Flail
Come over here, Shamus a-bouchal
And sit on your grandfather's knee
And Eily and Katie and Noreen
Come draw your chair's closer to me.
Away with your tasks and your lessons
I'm grey-haired but still I will hold
That the bright and sad tales of old Ireland are(continues on next page)- Collector
- Martin Kinsella
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Bolacreen, Co. Wexford
- Informant
- Mrs Kinsella
- Relation
- Grandparent
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Bolacreen, Co. Wexford