School: An Tuar Mór
- Location:
- Toormore, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Mícheál Ó Ceallacháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0237, Page 205
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A Local Song (continued)
“Waft me back to dear old Ireland across the ocean blue”
(continued from previous page)IV
Four years are nearly passed and gone
since last I seen the soil
The grandeur of the woodlands plains
round Rockingham and Boyle
Where gentle men with horse and hound
did hunt the stag and hare
On St Patricks day in Ireland
the time when I was there.V
The hand and quill of Tommy Hill
sends love to one and all
From Carrick to Killucan
and from that to sweet Coothall
the boys of Aughrim and Kilmore
their glass with me would share
on St Patricks day in Ireland
the time when I was there.
It was composed by Tommy Hill
Toomna
Carrick-on-Shannon
In the year 1883. Went to America in the year 18