School: The Vale (An Gleann)
- Location:
- Leiter, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: S. Ó Brolcháin
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- (continued from previous page)Has half as much or more(3)
Henry Hall above them all
With his woodland and demesne
For to win his life he married a wife
Miss [?] from Gartnanane.(4)
For I went there the other day
To cut down a tree
For such a drift of fire pork pigs
I never yet did see.(5)
They were feeding round a large machine
Which looked like Kelly's Mill
It would take O Rourke from Inishkeen
Those animals for to fill(6)
Mr Collage, Jones, and Turner
They own a whole downland
There farms are fairly flourishing
And there homesteads are so grand(7)
Perhaps you think they are mighty rich
I'll have you to understand
Big Turner would drink as much in a week
That would flood the whole townland(8)(continues on next page)- Collector
- Jack Clarke
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Skeagh, Co. Cavan