School: Clashaganny (roll number 8051)
- Location:
- Clashaganny, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Albert Flanagan
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- I'll sing a song of home
I.m Lonely and I.m thinking.
T'is better to beguile the hour by music than by drinking.
I.ll send my thoughts Roscommon wards.
To Cargins and Rathcroghan But first they'll wander to the hills
Of dear old Ballybroghan
Ah " green clad hills how oft indeed
Does memory reflect thee.
As fill a creel with Winter snow
Or as the daisies deck thee.
The moon oft cast my shadow there
And that of Delia Croghan.
When she and I [struck out in ink: "kenew"] knew little care.
On the hills of Ballybroghan.
There is a place not far from there
That I have often strayed in
It is the home stead of the fair.
That beauty's ne'er decayed in
Its name may not poetic be,
But charms it has full many.
Oh eastward winds take o'er the sea.
My Love to Clashaganny.
And Let me wander with you a while.
Ardkeen of the bushes.
And let me hear the sweet Cuckoo.(continues on next page)- Collector
- Philomena Connor
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Sheegeeragh, Co. Roscommon
- Informant
- Owen Flattery
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Rathmore, Co. Roscommon