School: An Drom (Drom Thurles) (roll number 585)
- Location:
- An Drom, Co. Thiobraid Árann
- Teachers: Pilib Ó Ó Muireadhaigh Pádraig Ó Cléirigh
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- Collector
- Mary Fogarty
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- An Drom, Co. Thiobraid Árann
- Informant
- Jeremiah Fogarty
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- An Drom, Co. Thiobraid Árann
- 6. A man by the name of John Long in the townland of Killahagan, parish of Drom, Co. Tipperary was a poet. He was seventy years of age when he dided. he is buried in St. Patrick's Cemetery which is in Thurles. He wrote a song by the name of "Rorardstown Goat." This poet was a farmer. He was about twenty-nine or thirty years of age when he composed this song. The people praised him greatly for doing so. They also attributed great powers to this poet. The song is still(continues on next page)