School: Lisball
- Location:
- Lisball, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: S. Doherty
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1010, Page 040
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Song
“She lives beside the Enor ¶ At the foot of Slieve na mban.”
I
She lives beside the Enor.
At the foot of Slieve Na mban.
A gentle Irish cailin
With milk eyes like the dawn.
II
Her cheeks were dewy rose bud.
Her teeth of pearls rare
And the snow drift neath her beaten bow
Her enck of nut brown hair.
III
Brave and well o cailin
And it's well I call you brave.
For the least of all your pearls
Is the stormy oceans wave.
IV
When you leave quiet valleys
And cross the Alantic foam
And for to hoard up hard earning
For the helpless ones at home.
V
For I am writing you a letter.
And I will send you all my love.
And tell my little brothers.
That we will meet with God above.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Leonard Clarke
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Bracklin, Co. Cavan
- Informant
- Christopher Carroll
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Bracklin, Co. Cavan