School: Fearann Iarthach (roll number 14183)
- Location:
- An Fearann Iarthach, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Seán Ó Murchadha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0468, Page 349
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Amhrán (continued)
“In sweetest Kildysaint as Phrebu was dawning”
(continued from previous page)The cocks they were crowing
We drank the good health of the friends and the neighbours
To sweet Lizzie Aisy and Peggy Malone
That beautiful creature the pride of the nation
Though down from the mountain she's rare to behold.
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That beautiful creature she's nicely accomplished
She's very well able to knit and to sew
In spinning her wheel when the wool is in season
And making up linen as white as the snow
In milking her cows and minding her dairy.
Her butter had taken tho away from the store
She's sprung from the Prince of the Irish Milesians
That banished the Danes from invading our shores(continues on next page)
- Informant
- Seán O' Módhráin
- Gender
- Male