School: Macha na gClaidhe (roll number 16086)
- Location:
- Maughanaclea, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Cathal Ó Macháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0283, Page 482
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Another Song (continued)
“One fine Summer's day for amusement I strayed, towards a mountain most famous called sweet Sheehy Mór.”
(continued from previous page)In the tops of this Mountain there is a pure fountain.
Awell of one aboundable efficiently flowsWhen hundreds and thousands in prayer do surround it,
Supplicating profoundly to the God they adore.There is not in this nation a holier high station,
Than the place consecrated by St John of Yore.I'm quite well aware it would relax all the (pains) x
Of mortal beings ere did yet undergo
In the top of this mountain if the sky was unclouded
You would see the mountains of Cork County and the Curragh of Kildare
The Galtees, Kilarneys grand lakes
The Mangerton Peaks and the Gap of Dunloe.
Cork Harbour and Queenstown, Spike Island and Monkstown
The Bleaches of Lodor, (?) Glanmire's sunny grove
And mostly the entire of the whole Br. Isles,
You would perceive from the height of Sweet Shehy More
In the vicinity all round it some woodlands are founded, where the Gentry of the County come there for asport
With huntsmen and hounds searching Reynard all round
And then echoes resound in the Glen and the Grove(continues on next page)