School: Coralstown (roll number 1314)
- Location:
- Baile Mhic Cearúill, Co. na hIarmhí
- Teacher: P. Ó Beóláin
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Song (continued)
“He is dead, he is dead, yes he is dead.”
(continued from previous page)But he lies to-day in the cold, cold clay.
In the glens of Coralstown.But yet mid all the pangs of pain,
It is surely wrong you know,
To wish him back with us again.
In this false world of woe.
For he is seated at his master's throne,
And wears a heavenly crown.
So it is better he is lying low,
In the glens of Coralstown.
- When our house was knocked down in 1889 there was found three blue cakes. My Grandfather said they were made of ashcakes and he told them when he was young he used to cut all the weeds about the place and when dried he would gather them up and burn them. Then he would gather up the ashes wet it with buttermilk and make little cakes and bake them on the griddle. When cattle would have ringworm and such other diseases(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Annie Geraghty
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballinla, Co. na hIarmhí
- Informant
- Philip Geraghty
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballinla, Co. na hIarmhí
