School: Geevagh (roll number 1213)
- Location:
- Geevagh, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Seán Ó Gallchobhair
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- I
Tis far away I am to-day
From my forefathers' home
Yet still I long to see the land
Where once they used to roam;
To gaze upon those old green hills
Where oft their blood was shed,
And breathe a prayer within my heart
For Erin's martyred dead.II
If I were where I'd ramble o'er
Each verdant hillside blessed,
Quite carelessy I'd jog along
To Sligo in the West.
From Curlieu hills to Sligo Bay,
From Keash to Carrownacluane
And gaze with pride on each hillside
That's waiting freedoms call.III
To old Strandhill I'd make my way
To view its scenes so fair,
To Highwood Gleann and Sooey
And that dear old Ballisodare.
Through every verdant glen I'd go,
Down by each rippling rill,
Through woodlands, brakes and meads around
To the shores of sweet Lough Gill.(continues on next page)- Collector
- Teasy Gallagher
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Michael J. Kearns
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Carrownadargny, Co. Sligo