School: Lubhghortán (Lowertown), Scoil Mhuire (roll number 4172)
- Location:
- Lowertown, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Máire, Bean Uí Mhathúna
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0289, Page 420
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- (continued from previous page)(3)And lo, from out south harbour
A pilate boat do glide
With a pilate flag in her mizen mast
Aflying in the breeze with a little cool, she travels fast
For a stately ship she steers
She is now hoved too, with main-yards backed
For a pilate from Cape Clear
(4)See, how the pilate hails her
And gently throws a line
He glides on to her quarter deck
And loudely cries he
" Let go your sheets for Queenstone boys
For its welcome there we'll be(5)We natives of this Island are the true bred Irish race
No mixture of the Sasanach
Flows through our Irish race
We are but simple fishermen
But we love our Island dear
Likewise our homes and sweethearts
In the Island of Cape Clear
