School: Coillte Críotáin
- Location:
- Erris, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Nóra Nic Aodhgáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0236, Page 432
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A Local Song (continued)
“Farewell to Boyle, to lakes and all”
(continued from previous page)That I'd get paid for the chase
God by with my schoolboy days.
They shall never more return
How, I long to see the town of Boyle
For which I sadly mourn.
VII
Farewell, dear friends and comrades all,
That live in Boyle to-day,
From the old crossroads to Easkey Bridge,
Round Doon and fame Lough Key,
Fair Crescent and Old Abbeytown
The acres and Mochmoyne,
The clover fields at Felton
Belongs to you Pat Coyne.
From Eastersnow to Silverroe
And all round Knockaddo,
Jail Flags,Ross Lane,
Main Street and Drum, adieu!
The real and true is wrapped in(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary Tivenan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cornaglia, Co. Roscommon