School: Taobh Breac (roll number 15227)
- Location:
- Tievebrack, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Donnchadh E. Mac Congáile
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- (continued from previous page)5. ‘Twere like in those wanderings at eve he met
At the curve of the valley there
‘Mong the heather bells with dew drops wet,
A maiden surpassing fair.
Whom he loved and brought to his shepherd’s cot,
From her home by the brooklet’s side
To share his hamlet and fleecy flocks
A radiant and happy bride.6. All else is told by this rock, crowned spot:
How the loved one sickened and died
How the shepherd bore her away from the cot
Up the slope of the Crown hillside
And buried her deep ‘mong the startled sheep
That, noting their altered mein,
Stood watching their masters in huddled groups
As though they had strangers been.7. The shepherd often at evening came
To sit and mourn his love
And brought his chair ‘Tis the very same
That is there on the hill above
Near the grave-stone gray: and for many a day
He sat in that lonely seat,
Till the rock below received the print
Of the sorrowing giants feetFinis - 1. Old Daniel McDonald, the fiddler, sat
At eve on the Fairy Knowes [sic],
That rise from the smooth green, grassy flat,
Where the sheep and the cattle browse.
He was weary and worn, and he sat to think
And played him a lonely tune
As the sun in the west was beginning to sink
Giving place to the rising moon.2. ‘Twas a sad, sad tune that he softly played,
With a slow and solemn measure:
And the sun on the mountain top delayed
As loath to forego the pleasure,
A glorious sight! The western sky
Was one bright golden glow
That hollowed the top of the mountain high
And melted away below.3. Till the erstwhile lonely and cold grey earth,
With its glory was all replete
From the mountain top where the rays got birth
To where, near the minstrel’s feet,(continues on next page)- Collector
- Donnachadh E. Mac Congáile
- Gender
- Male
- Occupation
- Múinteoir
- Informant
- James Mc Loughlin
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Tievebrack, Co. Donegal