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School: Cill Mhíde (C.), Caisleán Nua (roll number 7959)

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Kilmeedy, Co. Limerick
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Eibhlín Ní Bhraonáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0496, Page 273

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    by pure breezes fanned.
    She's my sweet little girl from Barnagh.
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    If my country was free O this then she'd be mine
    I'd buy for her jewels and diamonds so fine
    But my country in bondage and must be set free
    From the foes that oppress her green isle of the sea.
    If my country was free O tis then she'd be mine.
    She's my sweet little girl from Barnagh
    The above song was composed by the late John Walsh of Rathcahill Newcastle West, well know as "Jack the Bard". In it he alludes to a charming young lady by the name of Kitty Aherne. She was the daughter of a farmer and was much admired for her beauty and grace. Before she was thirty she married a farmer's son in the Parish of Castlemahon
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