School: Newtown, Kells (roll number 5053)
- Location:
- Newtown (Shea), Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: (name not given)
Open data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Newtown, Kells
- XML Page 07_045
- XML “Local Poets”
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- (continued from previous page)He was working with a local farmer once, and he was not giving him much wages, and he made up a rhyme about the farmer. The following is the rhyme "J W' was tight old screw. With his five old cows, and his old thatched house, and his few scattered acers of land."
"When the whistle blew, the hands were few, and some were sent away and the rest had too much to do"
Patrick Peters made up this rhyme on a threshing day with this farmer.
Patrick Fleming who resides in Kilree is famous for making rhymes.(continues on next page)- Collector
- Máire de Paor
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Haggard, Co. Kilkenny
- Informant
- Mr John Marnell
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 83
- Address
- Dunnamaggan, Co. Kilkenny