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School: Leitir Bric (roll number 14924)

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Letterbrick, Co. Mayo
Teacher:
Seán Ó Grannacháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0151, Page 641

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  1. Amhrán - Sweet Carrowkeel (continued)

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    (continued from previous page)
    From India to Asia there is no habitation
    No beauty to equal sweet Carrowkeel.
    III
    When he goes out hunting on a fine Summers morning,
    The country alarming and all flocking around,
    To view him so near abounding the nation,
    And during the season he keeps the lead round,
    I am long meditating and now calculating
    The one third of his riches I could not explain,
    He had hundreds of thousands and millions of money,
    The expend at his leisure in Sweet Carrowkeel.
    IV
    If you were to go out walking,
    On a fine Summers morning
    The country adorning with rosies in bloom
    (continues on next page)
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. poetry
        1. folk poetry (~9,504)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Mary O' Boyle
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Doonaroya, Co. Mayo
    Informant
    Patrick Mc Donnell
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Doonaroya, Co. Mayo