School: An Léim Gearr (roll number 8766)
- Location:
- Lemgare, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: P. Duffy
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- (I)There's a dear little town in the heart of our country,
It nestles mid fields that are verdant and green,
Tho' the wide world I roam I can never forget it,
Sweet Keady where childhood's loved pleasure I've seen
(II)Its daughters are fair, and its young men are healthy,
The sky hangs 'oer all with a neer fading blue
And the Callan flows by with its trout laden waters,
Still murmring its song, deep, eternal and true
(III)It sings of the lives of the faithful and true men,Who first saw the light and now sleep by its side,Pure hard lives that still shine like bright beacons to guide usTho' times have since altered and long years divide.
(IV)Now exile I wander far far from my homeland
Still memories will linger dear Keady of you
Tho' my dust may with mat of the stranger commingle
My spirit will hover o'er Clay's water blue.
The Callan is a tributary of the Blackwater on which is built the town of Keady.
