School: Gortnaskeagh (roll number 16321)
- Location:
- Gortnaskeagh, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Anna Nic Aodha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0199, Page 195
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Song (continued)
“O Lurganboy is a pretty place”
(continued from previous page)This fair one I first saw
Her beauty rare did me insnare
I thought she was the queen
As she passed me by she looked at me
So shy I felt I should have gone home
With the maid of sweet Miltown
IV
Oh If I was lord of Breffni
To greet this maiden fair
I'd make Lurganboy a sea port town
And sail to Dromahair
I'd have to sail on fair Lough Gill
And down to Sligo town,
If I could gain that matchless maid
She is the maild of sweet Miltown.
V
It's on Benbo lofty mountain
A castle great and grand
i'd build for her that she might view all over ground
She could view the shores of Eirin
From Cork to county Down
If I could gain that maid
She is the maid of sweet Miltown.
- Collector
- John Kelly
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Gortnaskeagh, Co. Leitrim
- Informant
- John F. Cunnegam
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 65
- Address
- Morerah, Co. Leitrim