School: Killummod
- Location:
- Killummod, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Tadhg Ó Bhioscáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0237, Page 311
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Old Songs (continued)
“Long ago butter and milk were supposed to be stolen”
(continued from previous page)And away she did gang
Through Skelp Carrowreagh
And across into Cambo
And she lies in her form
Near hand Killapogue.
(III)
"Oh by jove" says Tom Cox
"She will not be long there
She feeds on my wheat
And away she must steer".
So he wrote to Dame French
For the pack of cut hounds
And he banished this hare
Away from his grounds.
(IV)
On the seventeenth of March
We will pass that way
And in honour of St. Patrick
A green shamrock we'll display
And with hounds and with horns
We will cry tally ho
And we'll banish this hare
From the hills of Knockroe
(V)
Says Feely to Drury
"If we don't run her down
In the bog of Drummer(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Joseph Bryan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Carrowreagh, Co. Roscommon
- Informant
- Richard Elwood
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 80
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Canbo, Co. Roscommon