School: Adamstown (roll number 3755)
- Location:
- Adamstown, Co. Wexford
- Teacher: Donnchadh Cuirtéis
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0899, Page 400
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“There lived in Rathkyle a very pretty girl named Miss Cox, and there were many who wished to marry her.”
(continued from previous page)"Twas on a summer's evening, in the merry month of May.
'Twas up the hills of sweet Rathkyle,
I carelessly did stray,
I spied a petty fair maid,
She appeared all in my view,
Her coal-black hair did me ensnare,
And her eyes were azure blue.
Her cheeks, they were a rosy red,
On her I thought to toil,
And her place of abode, was near the road,
On the borders of sweet Rathkyle,
Come all ye foreign bachelors,
That wish this young maid to see,
I hope you'll pay attention,
And come along with me,
I'll bring you to Sir Willie's Court,
Where this fair maid she do dwell,
With the "shouts" and "Hurrahs" me boys,
"Silence my boys", the old queen replied,
Each other's do not jar,
There's not a man in this whole estate,
Like faithful Denis Carr,(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Michael Martin
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Rathkyle, Co. Wexford
- Informant
- John Martin
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 55
- Address
- Rathkyle, Co. Wexford