School: Carrickallen
- Location:
- Carrickallen, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: A. Lynch
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1022, Page 105
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- (continued from previous page)And your wife undressed must leave the nest
for Jimmy of Grousehall.He's fixed a plan for a poor man that had a handsome wife
To take away without delay his liberty in life.
He swears quite plain he is insane and has no sense at all.
As he has done of late with one
convenient to Grousehall.
He haunts the Lague just like a plague, most shameful to relate.
The priest on Sunday can't be free the mass to celebrate
For there he kneels encased in steel prepared for duty's call.
For to assail and drag to jail our clergy at GrousehallThis busy tool of castle rule, he's strolling night and day,
He'd seize a goat just by the throat for want of better prey,
The nasty skunk he'd swear you drunk though you took none at all,
There is no peace about the place since he came(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Teresa Clarke
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Tullyunshin, Co. Cavan
