School: Kenmare (B.) (roll number 2849)
- Location:
- Kenmare, Co. Kerry
- Teachers: Eoghan Ó Súilleabháin Liam Mac Cuisín
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0461, Page 454
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- As I lay on the hill-top mid the heather perfume,
I feel that my features a bright colour assume,
This sweet balmy air blowing in from the sea,
To brighten my memory and bring past thoughts to me.
As I gazed on the hills in a circle around,
With none to disturb me no voice to resound,
The sight that's before me no picture can show,
No fonder impression could Nature bestow.
My own native birth-place I plainly do see,
With its pleasant green fields smiling on me,
Where my school-days were spent without sorrow or care,
To roam and to wander enjoy everywhere.
Oh! what history there in these mountains doth dwell,
Too much for a poet or historian to tell,
Where our forefathers prayed by night and by day,
Till the laws of the Sassanach drove them away.
That Carraig an Aifrinn or Mass Rock on the hill,
Would make you feel sad and your heart it would trill,
Where our priests and our people gave honour to God
Both hungry and cold and not properly clad.(continues on next page)
- Informant
- Jeremiah O Connor
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 67
- Address
- Kenmare, Co. Kerry
