School: Calary, Bray
- Location:
- Ceallúrach Íochtarach, Co. Chill Mhantáin
- Teacher: Bean de Faoite
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0912, Page 225
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- (continued from previous page)a girl up in Avoca Co. Wicklow and he composed this song about her. He made up,another song about a lady he saw in Blessington waiting for the train she was playing a "yo yo". He made another about "Calary bog road" and the witches you meet in the ditches. He composed these songs himself and sometimes gets them printed in the paper. He is a learned man and can read and write and is a famous musician. He can play all sorts of music. All these songs are sung still. Henery Boylan, Glasnamullen made up a great song years ago about tug o' War between Carrigower and Kilruddery it goes to the air of "the tri colour ribbon o". This man is a trades man and he plays music. This man is alive still and can read and write and is a good story teller.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Maggie Fleming
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Glais na Muileann, Co. Chill Mhantáin
- Informant
- Alice Sutton
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 14
- Address
- Cill Pheadair, Co. Chill Mhantáin
