School: Killmallock Convent School
- Location:
- Kilmallock, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: An tSr. Dimpna
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0528, Page 214
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- I have often thought of returning.
Though age my return delays,
To that place in my heart ever burning
The home of my childhood days.And now I am always dreaming.
While sadness my life doth fill
When I dream of that little village
those of kilamallock hill.The place was not lacking in heroes,
Whose names history's pages fill,
And there, many a chieftain hoary,
Died for his land with a will.In this place long remembered in story,
A saint his abode once took,
And oft in his hermit-cell dreary,
He studied the Holy book.Away from the fretful world.
With its anxieties, sorrows, and cares,
In his hermit-cell e'er reclining
He seeks peaceful rest in his prayers.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Moira O' Grady
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 12
- Address
- Kilmallock, Co. Limerick
