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   Birchfield (ar leanamhaint)
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   They are all gone like the snow when exposed to the sun is dissolved
   Now Birchfield is lonely and no more of the O'Briens to be had
   But jackdaws and crows through the holes they can easily pass
   Tis a folly to say that the date of the year 51
   When none of that race could be aware of how Birchfield now stands
   For the trees and green leaves are decayed and no more for to branch
   While the timber and fine slates are blown away with the wind that is gone
   Surely you would swear it is neither the house nor the land
   For indeed in ould days it was arranged in a very nice plan
   With cow houses dairies and stables for horses to stands
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   For a Brother it is strange to say between me and you
   Where there were seven or eight young ladies and young men in bloom
   To look into the same in the early days of their youth
   They are all making clay and no heir behind them to rule
   There's a monument made so neatly at St. Brigid's Well
   Where the O'Briens are all laid and placed in their coffins of lead
   You can see them quite plain without either glasses or specks
   Through the grand iron gate thats drawing air to the corpses that's dead
   And fond Brother my dear I mean to say that I'm telling no lie
   Let no hesitation be made to what I reply
   For your kind and good favour has pleased my heart and my mind
   May our dear Saviour receive us forever to guide.

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   History Edit

   Language

   English

   Informant

   Donnchadh Ó Murchadha

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   50

   Occupation

   Siopadóir

   Address

   Liscannor, Co. Clare