School: Danescastle
- Location:
- Danescastle, Co. Wexford
- Teacher: Micheál Ó Loinghsigh
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- Bannow's Bright Blue Bay
I've roamed through many an Irish sce[ne?]
Where natures fairest dwells.
Through sweet Avocas vale i've been And fair Killarney's fells
But fresher far my memory keeps
One place more loved than they.
Where Bannow buried city sleeps
Beneath the bright blue Bay
And often in Autumn tome
When rose the Harvest moon
I've listened to the church bells chime
And heard the reapers tune
On Bannows bar those murmurs deep
Make music all day
Where all around the city sleeps
Beneath that bright blue Bay
they say the ancient city stood
Long unturies ago
Where pon we watch the fitful flood
And bright blue waters flow
From Kierans ancient ivied shrine
To Bannows abbey gray
From Fethard's cliffs to fair Clonmines
This buried city lay
One midnight as the moon went down
Behind Rathdounlls hill
And all the merry making Town
Full many a feast did fill
The stormy sea along it broke
And since that fatal day
The buried city never woke
Beneath that bright blue Bay(continues on next page)