School: Clonlara
- Location:
- Cloonlara, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Dll. Ó Heoghanáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0585, Page 028
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- Falls of Doonass 24-1-'38When the Summer and the Winter on the feild of distant years,
With long furnished shafts of sunshine and with gleaming icy spears,
Were contending at the birth of time of the merry hearted Spring,
Came a day when to the flowers all the rainbow colors cling;
When the skies and groves were mirrored on a flood of liquid glass,
And the woodland warblings echoed from Mount Shannon to Donnass.
Oh! Doonass of rushing rapids bound with wood and rocky steep
Girt with modern Hall and Mansion crowned with ancient tower and keep;
Oh! Doonass of beauty peerless, for wild grandeur all sublime.
The romance of the romantic of our own wild lovely chime.
By the ivy mantled turrets gaurding still the grand old wood,
Sat the lovely Mary Massey gazing sadly o' er the flood.
Not the madly running torrent, not the nature of the spot(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Josie Moloney
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mrs P. Moloney
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 52
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Doonass, Co. Clare
