School: Cromadh (B.)
- Location:
- Croom, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Dáithí Ó Ceanntabhail
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- Fragment of a song once popular in this district:-
"Near yonder green mountains where the silver streams run,There lives a young damsel, she has my heart won,Her face is as bright as the May-morning sun,She's my nice little girl from Bearna"
I enter the above as being to my mind strikingly like the English version of "An Buachaill Caol Dubh" of Seán Clárach)Honey pound (correctly Páirc Buidhe) was apparently the home of one of our local beauties whose charms were the stimulus for a song which began thus:-
You muses nine with me combine and grant me some relief,As here alone I sigh and moan o'er-powered with woe and grief.
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Through Caherass groves I've often roved where the birds sweetly singWhere the cuckoo and the nightingale do make the valley ringThe Thrushes and the blackbirds do deck the plains all roundWhilst here in pain I still remain so far from Honeypound
Mr Michael Kennedy of High St. Croom tells me that he believes this song should not be about Honeypound but a about Mitchelstown, in other words our local rhymester was merely an adaptor, but whether the adaptor or the author, he was better versed in the stressed syllablc mode of Irish metre than in English metrics. For that reason alone, as indicating the then, still surviving effect of Irish syllabic rhyme I have included it here.- Collector
- Daithí O Ceanntabhail
- Gender
- Male
- Occupation
- Múinteoir
- Informant
- Mr Michael Kennedy
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Croom, Co. Limerick