School: Clochar na Trócaire, Maghcromtha

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1. Macroom

   

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   Macroom, midst your hills, flowery plains
   All around you are bright to behold;
   There are also your hills, valleys, dales
   And your rivers flowing o'er beds like gold.

   Your convent and chapel divine
   Standing bright at the foot of Sleaveen
   O they form a picture sublime
   Above all other sights I have seen

   For in them were woven sweet spells
   Of enchantment around my young soul
   A vision that still to me tells
   Of sweet joys I first got in Macroom

   Your streets in bright glittering array
   Look resplendent in glad summertime
   For the shops, then all painted, look gay,
   And crowds come and go there each time.

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   History Edit

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Siobhán Ní Mhurchadha

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Tooms East, Co. Cork

   Informant

   Charles Forde

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Macroom, Co. Cork