School: Mín Charraigeach (roll number 7188)
- Location:
- Meencargagh, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Caitlín Nic Ghiolla Uain
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- (Composed by Johnny Cooney, a native of Stranolar)There’s a glen in old Stranolar
There’s a cottage in that glen
Where once there lived as fair a maid
As inspired a poet’s pen;
She was handsome, fair, and hearty,
And as graceful as the fawn,
And the neighbors loved the widow’s
Handsome daughter Noírín Dán.IITill one morning came a letter
With her passage paid to go
To the land of the Wizard,
Where the Mississippi flows;
She soon got all things ready,
And one morning at the dawn
The widow broken-hearted
Parted with young Noírín Dán.IIIMany years the widow waited,
But one morning to her door
Gently walked a slender female,
Costly were the robes she wore;
Long the widow gazed upon her
Shining features, oh, so wan!(continues on next page)- Collector
- Bernard Doherty
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Goland, Co. Donegal
- Informant
- Bernard Doherty
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 46
- Address
- Goland, Co. Donegal