School: An Tuar Mór
- Location:
- Toormore, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Mícheál Ó Ceallacháin
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“Near the old town of Carrick where the Shannon flows by...”
(continued from previous page)and hen eggs galore
And when you had finished
they would press you to eat more
Strong tea that you would walk on
with rich yellow cream
Everyday seemed a banquet in
Culeen na Treen.
IV
So now goodbye to Carrick
Boyle and Elphin
Please God next year it
will be back here again
So sit by the fire and
live like a queen.
Every day seemed a banquet in Culeen na Treen.Composed by Pat Moran
Drumlion
Ck-on Shannon
who went to America in
the year 1930.