School: Ballycorus (roll number 8294)
- Location:
- Ballycorus, Co. Dublin
- Teacher: E. Nic Shionóid
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0798, Page 299
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A Local Song - Maids of Enniskerry O (continued)
“We drink a health, long life a wealth”
(continued from previous page)We drink a health long life and weath
to the maids of Enniskerry O
By shady glen and thorney glen, and
mountain rivers foaming.
They sport and play so bright and gay
Like Elfins in the gloaming ORove every mile through Erin's Isle
From Bantry Bay to Derry O
'there's no colleen' like the Mountain queens around sweet Enniskerry O. Poor Adam sighed, when first he spied
Fair Eve in Eden roaming O
He found a mate who share his fate.
And love him in the gloaming O
So love began twixt Maid and man
And never sience did very O
Fair Eve she threw her charms anew
around sweet Enniskerry O
The old folks say they came one day.
A band of faries reaming O
From every hand a magic wand shone brillant in the gloaming
They plucked a flower from every bower
And a stone from every berry O
They laid it down and built a town and called it Enniskerry O