School: Clonmacnoise
- Location:
- Clonmacnoise, Co. Offaly
- Teacher: P. Ó Maolmhuaidh
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- (continued from previous page)Whenever they do wrong
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The poor man often keeps his word
Better than folks that’s grander
The King begrudged to pay the Saint
For curing his old gander
The King to rise a ruction
He called the Saint a witch
And he sent in for this six big sons
To heave him in the ditch.
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“Na bac leis” says Saint Kevin
“I’ll manage these young urchins”
And he turned the King and his six big sons
Into the Seven Churches.
There stand the churches(continues on next page)- Collector
- Kieran Coughlan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Clonascra, Co. Offaly
- Informant
- Mrs B. Coughlan
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 57
- Address
- Clonascra, Co. Offaly