School: An Clochar (roll number 14705)
- Location:
- Kilbarron, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Mother Philomena
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- Collector
- May Gillespie
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballyshannon, Co. Donegal
- Away from the town and its babbling noise,
Where the winds croon softly in valley and dell.
Down by the shore and the silvery bay,
Watching wavelets dance round the Holy Well.
II
I meekly join the reverent throng,
Kneeling on shingle and broken shell.
Telling the beads, as Patrick did,
Whose Saintly hands bless'd the Abbey Well.
III
A Priest stands now, at an Altar, rude,
With Chalice rais'd, as a tinkling bell(continues on next page)