School: Lacken (C.), Cill Mhichíl (roll number 13827)
- Location:
- Lacken, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Bean Uí Mhaonaigh
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- (I)You men of Kilmihil did you hear of late
That Davy was fencing the Knockalough Lake
A despatch sent to Nenagh made him still stand
To the honoured John Boucher the Lord of the land.
(II)Mr Meehan came forward and frankly declared
The strand was in common
No rent for it paid
So all passers by to the Kilmihil fair
Can water their cattle and horses exhale
(III)No sting-fly no lizard, no wizard , no toad,
No reptile, no vulture, no monster, no goad.
Over night comes the "Graces" and Elysian bands
Addressing the water and crystalline strands
(IV) Our doctors and vendors in the newspapers state
By pills and their unctions they cure all disease
Escalapus has written of fictions beware
But frequent the water of the Knockalough Lake
(V)Calipso Themus Libertine and Sayers
Flora Aurora Mintrvia(?) and Hefe
Their celestian mansions they will often forsake
To taste the pure water of the Knockalough Lake(continues on next page)- Collector
- Patricia Daly
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 78
- Address
- Cahercannavan, Co. Clare