School: Duíbhlios
- Location:
- Deelish, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Seán Ó Súilleabháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0303, Page 162
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An Old Song (continued)
“I dream of thee, old Drimoleague, and High Street there my home”
(continued from previous page)Oh! God be with ye Meeny’s groves
Where often I have been
And rambled through the wild wood there
To pluck the holly green
And to sweet Castledonovan
my thoughts do fondly stray
Where I and my young comrade boys
Spent many a Christmas Day.From my fathers home in High Street
Owen’s mountain’s can be seen,
Where the lovely Ilen rises, which,
Flows in to Skibbereen.
There grows the heather, green and wild,
O'er many a “poteen” still;
Lying hidden in the bosom,
Of Owen’s lofty hill.
- Collector
- Seán Ó Súilleabháin
- Gender
- Male
- Occupation
- Múinteoir
- Address
- Deelish, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Donncadh O Brien
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Castledonovan, Co. Cork