School: Na Garráin, Garrdha Thancáird (roll number 12793)
- Location:
- An Garrán, Co. Chorcaí
- Teacher: Domhnall Ó Laoghaire
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0322, Page 385
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- (continued from previous page)From all his rivals for the prize on our next Lady's Day.
For he who plucks the scarlet rose that grows on yon green tower
Shall call Eileen Barry Og his own before another hour.The day has dawned which shall decide whose bride shall Eileen be
And by Bandon's pleasant side the sight was fair to see.
Five of Munsters greatest chiefs are climbing high the wall
But ere one third its height is reached young Roche outspeeds them all
For love has nerved his arm as he scales yon dizzy height
And now his hand he has put forth to pluck the rose so bright
For cruel fate has ordered that its touch he ne'er can feel
But one look at his darling and his fearful brain doth reel. The treacherous stone has given way whereon his foot had stood
And his body mangled plunges in the Bandon's rapid flood
In Eileens face no smile is seen since Roche sank 'neath wave
And she joined him ere a twelfth month in the land beyond the grave
But ere another year its course o'er Barry Og had sped
He was mingled with his fathers in the land beyond the dead.
- Collector
- Nora O' Callaghan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- An Ré Ramhar, Co. Chorcaí
