1. dúchas.ie
  2. The Schools' Collection
  3. St Columba's, Buncrana

School: St Columba's, Buncrana

Location:
Buncrana, Co. Donegal
Teacher:
Eoghan Ua Gallchobhair
Browse
Mode:
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1111, Page 117

Archival Reference

The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1111, Page 117

Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.

See copyright details.

Download

Open data

Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

  1. XML School: St Columba's, Buncrana
  2. XML Page 117
  3. XML “Famine”
  4. XML “The Valley of Fahan”

Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.

On this page

  2. The Valley of Fahan

    Share Share Post
    There is not in this wide world a more beautiful lawn
    Than the lovely recess in the valley of Fahan
    Where the Swilly's dark waves roar when the winds are at rest
    Reflects with brown lustre oer the wild mountains blest.
    Go honour the name of O Donnell the brave
    The valiant O Doherty who now sleeps in his grave
    With a long of repose by nature hand drawn
    Lies blooming and freshning in the valley of Fahan
    (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
    Colm Quigley
    Gender
    Male