School: Béal Átha an Dá Chab
- Location:
- Ballydehob, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Síle Ní Mhathúna
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0291, Page 296
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- She dwelt beside the Anner.
At the foot of Slíabh na mBhan;
A gentle Irish girl with mild eyes likes the dawn;
Her cheeks were dewy rosebuds;
Her teeth like pearlets rare;
And a snow drift 'neath a beechen bough;
Her neck and nut brown hair.
2
How pleasant 'twas to meet her on Sunday when the bell,
Was ringing with its mellow tones;
Lone wood and grassy dell;
And when at eve' young maidens strayed
The river's bank along;
The widow's brown haired daughter was the fairest of them all.
3
O' brave, brave, Irish girls;
We well may call you brave,
Sure the least of all your perils;
Was the stormy, ocean wave;
When you leave your quiet valleys and cross the Atlantic foam,
And hoard your hard won earnings(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Kitty Cronin
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Coolagh More, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Mr Florence O' Sullivan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 72
- Address
- Coolagh More, Co. Cork
