School: Carlanstown (roll number 884)
- Location:
- Carlanstown, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Séamus Ó Gérbheannaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0708, Page 031
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- (continued from previous page)Saying: "alanna machree, you're goin' from me to a strange land far away
"And may God's Blessed Mother watch o'er you night and day.
"May her Heavenly smile light up your toil and dispel the stranger's frown
When the rollin' sea parts you from me and the Bog of Oristown."May father died in manhood's pride and they laid him in his tomb
When the summer breeze sang this' the trees and the heather was in bloom
Then brother Ned he next lay dead and mother followed soon
And there's nought but mud where our cabin stood to greet the risin' moon.
And the wild curlew cries: "wirra-woo" o'er the turf heaps black and brown
When the night-breeze sighs 'neath the starlet skies on the Bog of Oristown.
- Collector
- P. O' Brien
