School: Kilkishen, Sixmilebridge
- Location:
- Kilkishen, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Pádraig Ó Conchobhair
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0585, Page 329
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“Not many years ago there lived in Violet Hill, near Broadford a man named Martin O' Kennedy.”
(continued from previous page)Working in Cullane.
Here are a few lines which he composed about the women of clonlea.
Sure you’d love to see the way the Cailins of Clonlea.
Were cleaning their kitchens and their keepers
But now their heads are down .they always wear a frown.
Since Cooney drew the sand bags to the peelers
He also composed a song about the church in O “Callaghans Mills this is the first verse of it.
There are beautiful chapels all over the country
Around by the valleys and over by the glens
In painting and tracing there cannot be beaten
We know that the clergy are all very tasty
The shine of their chapel would free your from sin.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Christie Clancy
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Kilkishen, Co. Clare