School: Naomh Colmcille, Leitir Cheanainn
- Location:
- Letterkenny, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: An Mháthair Ignatius Ní Bhroin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1083, Page 010
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- (continued from previous page)Where the Gold and purple sunset over Sentry hill
Illuminated the shining valleys,
From Crochknar to Knockabrin,
Old manor over the Swilly lies brightly in the sun,
For its there I love you best of all
Sweet Letterkenny Town.
My mother's tears were falling in that sad morning long ago,
When I left my old thatched Cottage in the bawns of Ballyboe,
She says my Buachaill save your money,
And old Ireland do look down,
Be sure my boy come back to Letterkenny Town.
When I came back again what changes now have shown,
My mother slumbered long ago in Conwall Holy Ground.
And that little dark eyed cailín,
God knows where she has flown,
And the faces are all strange to me(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Maeve Gallagher
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Letterkenny, Co. Donegal
