School: Ballyrahan, Tinahely
- Location:
- Ballyraheen, Co. Wicklow
- Teacher: Máiréad Ní Mheachair
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Local Songs
“The sporting Ould Grey Mare come all ye horsedealers and now pay attention.”
The Sporting Old Grey Mare
Come all ye horse-dealers and now pay attention
To a comical ditty I am now going to tell
Concerning the cheapness of horses in Dublin
The good ones you buy and how cheap they do sell
I'm convinced by John Byrne who lived in Corra-aunish[?]
Who went down to Dublin to purchase a mare
She was white as the snow and as poor as a crow
She was twenty hands high, Oh! the truth I declare(continues on next page)- Informant
- Patrick Foley
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Cross, Co. Wicklow