School: Killeenkere
- Location:
- Killinkere, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: A. Ó Cléirigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1005, Page 067
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Local Songs (continued)
“I am a roaring hackler that loves the shamrock shore”
(continued from previous page)Since he came to Grousehall.
6
Down into hell he'd run pell -mell
In search of Poteen there
He's not aloth to swear an oath
'Twas found in Killinkere
He'll search your bed from foot to head
Sheet, blanket, quilt & all
And your wife undressed must
leave her nest
For Jemmy of Grousehall
7
He fixed a plan for a poor man
That has a handsome wife
To take away without delay
His liberty of life
He swore quite plain he was insane
And had no sense atall
That, he has done of late with one
Convenient to Grousehall.
- Collector
- Bernard Fitzsimons
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Kilmore, Co. Cavan
- Informant
- Patrick Fitzsimons
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 65
- Address
- Kilmore, Co. Cavan