School: Ladhar (C.), Bán-Tír (roll number 8665)
- Location:
- Lyre, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Síle, Bean Uí Chéilleachair
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0361, Page 045
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- With my rod and line in the Summer time
As the shades of night gave way
I hiked along 'mid a wealth of song
From each leafy bough and spray
By that castle old where Mc Cachara bold
Kept Saxon hordes at bay
And the calm Brogeen sang the nights requiem
At the dawning of the day.
II
I paused awhile nigh this Celtic pile
And I mused on the long ago
How the poets sang and the harp's loud twang
Sent the dancers two and fro
And the seanachie told tales of glee
Of love and the chase and the fray
Where the field are green by the calm BrogeenAt the dawning of the day.
III
Of stories told by young and old
Of the crash of its crystal dome(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Cáit Ní Scannláin
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- DJ Scanlon
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 56
- Address
- Glenaknockane, Co. Cork
