School: St Davaddog's, Tamney
- Location:
- Tawny, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: -
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1090, Page 510
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“This melody was known by a few old people in the neighbourhood of Raphoe about thirty years ago.”
This melody was known by a few old people in the neighbourhood of Raphoe about thirty years ago. No one there seems to recollect it now.
It is a song, but its name, and the poem lyric I have failed to discover so far, except the opening phrases
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- Collector
- W. B. Lecky
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