School: Garrán, Drom Dhá Liag (roll number 11274)
- Location:
- Garranes South, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Conchobhar Ó Drisceoil
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0292, Page 268
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“By the side of a dear crystal fountain...”
By the side of a dear crystal fountain,
Where the old village Church stands near.
Where the tomb decked with flower's beneath the willow for the memory of a tender mothers grave,
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I shall never see thee more gentle mother,
In the field's where the wild flowers wave,
And its many the time we picked them,
for the memory or a kind mothers grave,
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of a mother is no telling,
Until the dear one is gone,
Every hair of her head,
while she is missing is felt by her daughter or son,
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- Collector
- Úna Mac Carthy
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Bawnishal, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Florence Mac Carthy
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 54
- Address
- Bawnishal, Co. Cork