School: Knockbride (2)
- Location:
- Knockbride, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: T.J. Barron
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- (continued from previous page)that some were taken away by the Yeomen and buried secretly to avoid getting into trouble.
- Mr Lundie says that some of the landlords around Carrickmacross offered inducements to their farmers to improve their methods of farming. Prizes were given for the best crops. An instructor was sent round to teach farmers improved methods. In some cases if a farmer wanted to slate his house the landlord bore half the expense. On Skleagh estate at one time the landlord roofed the dwelling house with slates if the tenants raised the walls two storeys high. He also gave iron gates to put along the roads if the tenant built the piers. The Skleagh land lord sometimes gave free lime for manure.
Songs Sung at Wakes
“There was a lord lived in this place, that had a lovely daughter;”
Among songs sung at Irish wakes were:-Bold Robert Emmett
The Croppy Boy
The Battle of Muff
The Dawning of the Day
My Mama's Waiting Maid
The Bailieboro Green Walk
Goodnight and Joy be with You All
There was a Lady in her Father's Garden
Charles Stuart Parnell
Brave Boys who work the Branches of the League
Betty of Ballinton Brae
Nancy of Cappoquin
The Lowlands Low(continues on next page)- Collector
- Mr S. Dogherty
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Lisball, Co. Cavan
- Collector
- Thomas J. Barron
- Gender
- Male
- Occupation
- Teacher
- Informant
- Mr Gaynor
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Bailieborough, Co. Cavan