School: Bán-Tír (C.) (roll number 2804)
- Location:
- Banteer, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Síle, Bean Uí Dheadaigh
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0361, Page 800
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- The Nun of KenmareI
God bless the royal Kerry Hills,
Away by Erin’s shore,
And sweet Loch Lene’s enchanted tide,
God bless it o’er and o’er.
Methinks I see the moonbeams dance
Once more upon its breast,
And heather bells wave proudly
O’er Mangerton’s bold crest.II
Oh, land of bright enchantment: -
Killarney of the Lakes,
Of swelling hills and flashing floods,
And sweet arbutus brakes;
I greet ye with a yearning heart,
Romantic land of love,
Where eagles scream and torrents roar,
From towering peaks aboveIII
In days of yore McCarthy Mor,
By Lene’s enchanted strand
An Abbey tall & stately built
With nave and chancel grand
And right richly he endowed it
With gold and meadows green,
And when he died they laid his bones
‘Neath his Abbey of Loch Lene.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- J C Deady
- Gender
- Unknown
