School: Carrigans (C.)
- Location:
- Carrigan, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Bean Mhic Gabhann
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0991, Page 123
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- (continued from previous page)Whether it was with roguery or with fear."
Another time there came a man to Mr. Lynch's house. Mr McCabe brought one of the clocks and made a song about it. A verse of it is.
"Clock-maker or watch-maker or whatever you may be
What sort of a time piece is this you have left with me.
In lying on my bed I never got such a shock,
When it struck thirteen o'clock.
The pendulum and the weights got into such a riot
That I had to send for the Paddy Neddies to help me to tie it.
The Paddy Neddies were the strongest men in the country at that time. Mr. Mc Cabe's son is alive ye It is about fifty years ago since that happened.
About forty years there lived in a little house near to Bruskey Chapel an old labouring man named Johnny Flood. He had no learning, couldn't read or write. He would take up a piece of paper and pretend he was reading a rhyme about any topic. He made a rhyme about the "Boer War" and a verse of it is.
Long Tom let a roar on the African Shore,
"I'm afraid of a Boer" and General White.
"Buller retreated as long as he waited,
I couldn't relate it unless you were by.
We were kept on low diet to keep us quiet,(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Rose Reilly
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Urbal, Co. Cavan
- Informant
- Mr Edward Boylan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Drumhillagh, Co. Cavan
