School: Kilmacow (B.) (roll number 14187)
- Location:
- Cill Mhic Bhúith, Co. Chill Chainnigh
- Teacher: P. Ó Loingsigh
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- Tory Hill
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I've always had a yearning fir tramping hilly roads.
Desire for climbing upwards the constant dreamer goods.
And when I long for freedom from toil and task and ill,
I go where freedom's waiting on famous Tory Hill.ll
Escape is like enchantment when you breathe the mountain air.
Far away from human chatter in the crowded haunts of care.
By the peaceful rippling stream and the distant humming mill.
In a ragged world of heather by the slopes of Tory Hill.lll
There the heart may know contentment
That is a kingdom's crown.
Never will the spirit find it in the pleasure of the town.
For the call of nature's triumphs and the(continues on next page)
- Collector
- James Walsh
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- An Daingean, Co. Chill Chainnigh
- Informant
- Kitty Walsh
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 19
- Occupation
- Cook
- Address
- An Daingean, Co. Chill Chainnigh
