School: Tóin an tSeanbhaile
- Location:
- Tóin an tSeanbhaile, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Pádhraic Mac Pháidín
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Many a swooping eagle soars,
Achill, where too deep for plummet,
Loud the wild Atlantic roars.Mighty Croughan heavenward towering
From the Bay of Keem below
Rears its crest with heather flowering,
'Neath the western sunbeam's glow.Here its river side exposing
Beds of amethystyne ore,
There its mountain path disclosing
Boycott seat and Corrymore.O'er its peaks with moss grown hoary
Storms have swept for ages past,
Yet in full primeval glory
Still it mocks the whirl-wind blast.Place me on its crag that steepest
Till my soul with fancy's fed,
Place me where through space 'tis deepest
Sheer into the ocean bed.Achill Head where billows breaking,
Roll in fury from the main,
Sounds like distant thunder waking(continues on next page)- Collector
- Sean Mc Craith
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Anthony Lavelle
- Relation
- Unknown
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Keel, Co. Mayo