School: Carrigans (B.)
- Location:
- Carrigan, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: P. Ó Dochartaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0991, Page 073
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- I
Assist me now you muses,
Till I discourse my quill,
Those mournful lines which I pen down,
Would make your blood run trill.
II
It is on the death of a young man,
Who received his death by accident
In 1887.
III
His name was Patrick Boylan
His age was scarce eighteen,
He was one of the finest young men
That ever your eves has seen.
IV
His height was six feet and one half
His weight full eighteen stone
He was an ornament of beauty
Widow's only son.
V
It was on the sixth of January
In the dept of frost and snow,
Pat Boylan with his dog and gun(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Owen Lynch
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 13
- Address
- Corduff, Co. Cavan
- Informant
- Pat Tierney
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 64
- Address
- Corduff, Co. Cavan
