School: Kilbegnet (roll number 1327)
- Location:
- Cill Bheagnait, Co. Ros Comáin
- Teacher: Tomás Ó Briain
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- (continued from previous page)But when Redmond said if there was he would leave him easy 'all the dear days of his life', so the young man yielded to the truth and O'Hanlon told him where the gold was hid. But whether he looked for the fortune ever afterwards I don't know.
The people around here have a song called 'Pat O Hara' and we are told that it the same Pat which is mentioned in this story. It tells us he was born in Limerick. - Pat OHara
I
I am an Irish boy
My heart is light with joy
I owe my birth and fame to Limerick City
I can handle well the twig
And flitter and Irish jig
I can give you a stave of any native ditty.
II
It was on St. Patrick's day
The truth I like to say
I slipped across the green fields light and airy
I was always up for fun.
And rare was known to run
For that would be a disgrace to sweet Shillelagh(continues on next page)- Collector
- Máire S. Ní Chatháin
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 15
- Informant
- James Ward
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Crosswell, Co. na Gaillimhe