School: Finternagh
- Location:
- Finternagh, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: C. Ní Bhuachalla
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1004, Page 287
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- (continued from previous page)He was a great port. He lived in a cottage. He made his living by mending boots. He made many nice poems. The names of some of them are "Mullagh Hill" and Richard Mortimer".
Richard Mortimer was a little boy of seven years when he died. Tommie Reilly made a song at the wake.
Richard Mortimer
Sleep on my little baby boy beneath the hawthorn shade,
In Mullagh's silent Church yard where your lonely grave was made,
You were formed like the flowers when the buds of beauty shone,
And left me here though innocent to weep for you alone.
The fragrant roses blooming around my cottage door,
Tell me of the sunny smiles that I can view no(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Alice Cahill
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Greaghnadarragh, Co. Cavan
- Informant
- Mrs Reilly
- Relation
- Unknown
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Drumiller, Co. Cavan
