School: Baile na Carraige, Cill Díoma (roll number 11295)
- Location:
- Ballynacarriga, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Séamus Ó Gríobhtha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0504, Page 266
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Local Songs
“Flow gently dear Maguire”
" The River Mague " ( Composed by Patrrick Staff, Pallaskenry about (61) the year 1900 )River Maigue.Flow gently dear Mague by thy green sedgy breas,
By the spot where I've spent happy hours happy days.
By the murmuring stream I oft strayed long ago.
Where the hawthorns bloom and the wild sallies grow.
The wild duck and curlew and plover all roam.
To they sedgy banks where they make a wild home.
By thy banks, rippling Mague Gerald Griffin did stray.
When he sang thy sweet murmuring bring lay.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Patrick Staff
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballynacarriga, Co. Limerick