School: Glendalough

Location:
Glendalough, Co. Wicklow
Teacher:
Bean Uí Ghabhann
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0917, Page 336

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  1. There was a poet who used to come to Avoca on holidays his name was Thomas Moore. He wrote a song called the Meeting of the Waters, and he wrote another called By the lake whose gloomy shors.
    There is a tree called Moors Tree that is where he wrote nearly all his poems. The tree fell once and it was stuck up with cement. The tree is rotten and withered now and no leaves grow on it.

    Máirín Ní Dhomhnaill,
    Gleann-dá-Loch
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. poetry
        1. folk poetry (~9,504)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Máirín Ní Dhomhnaill
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Glendalough, Co. Wicklow
    Informant
    Andy Mc Donnell
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    60
    Address
    Glendalough, Co. Wicklow