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1. Local Songs - The Farmers of Skeagh (continued)

   

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   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)

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   History Edit

   Topics

   1. genre
      1. poetry
         1. folk poetry (~9,504)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Jack Clarke

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Skeagh, Co. Cavan