School: Ráth Ó gCormaic (B.), Carraig na Siúire
- Location:
- Rathgormuck, Co. Waterford
- Teacher: Mícheál Mac Créigh
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0655, Page 185
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Old Songs (continued)
“Oh Slieveenamon, brave Slievenamob, your mountains proud and high, that rises from Tipperary fair, It's head up towards to sky.”
(continued from previous page)The exiled children of our race
Wherever they have gone
And guide them home across the foam
Back safe to Slievenamon.This song was written by Molly Sexton, Ballinagrana Carrick on Suir The Dreoilin
The wren, the wren, the king of all birds,
St. Stephen's day he was caught in the furze,
Up with the kettle and down with the pan
And give us a penny to bury the wren.
II
Dreoilin, Dreoilin where's your nest
'Tis in the tree that I love best
Up in the holly and ivy tree
Where all the birds can follow me.
III
As I went up to Donegal
I met a wren upon the wall
Up with my wattle and knocked him down,
And brought him into Carrick town.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Eamon Ó Toibín
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Boola, Co. Waterford
- Collector
- Liam de Paor
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Kilballyquilty, Co. Waterford
- Informant
- Eamon de Paor
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 55
- Address
- Kilballyquilty, Co. Waterford
- Informant
- Muiris Ó Toibín
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 65
- Address
- Boola, Co. Waterford