School: Clochar Muire, Tobar an Choire (roll number 12166)
- Location:
- Tobar an Choire, Co. Shligigh
- Teacher: An tSr. M. Nioclás
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0171, Page 362
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On this page
- (continued from previous page)Along the mountain side
How gently flows the river Moy
From these unto the sea
May the Heaven's be with you Carrowmore
And the Hill of Kocknashee
IV
How deeply pictured in my mind
Those places that I've seen
There's Keash and Geevagh and Ballymote
And the hills round sweet Gusteen
The groves and lakes of Templehouse
And Steamstown spreading near
Farewell to those, farewell to all
Farewell to Knocknashee.
V
Farewell to evening dances
Where merry comrades meet
Where the fiddler says to the boys and girls
Get up and shake your feet,
It's there you'll find the colleens,
That would fill your heart with glee
O I'd risk my life to have a wife
From the Hill of Knocknashee
VI
There stands the ruined Abbey wall
Where out people's bones do rest(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Nellie Walker
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Mullach an Fharaidh, Co. Shligigh
