School: Mín Charraigeach (roll number 7188)

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1. Nóirín Bán

   

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   (Composed by Johnny Cooney, a native of Stranolar)

   There’s a glen in old Stranolar
   There’s a cottage in that glen
   Where once there lived as fair a maid
   As inspired a poet’s pen;
   She was handsome, fair, and hearty,
   And as graceful as the fawn,
   And the neighbors loved the widow’s
   Handsome daughter Noírín Dán.

   II

   Till one morning came a letter
   With her passage paid to go
   To the land of the Wizard,
   Where the Mississippi flows;
   She soon got all things ready,
   And one morning at the dawn
   The widow broken-hearted
   Parted with young Noírín Dán.

   III

   Many years the widow waited,
   But one morning to her door
   Gently walked a slender female,
   Costly were the robes she wore;
   Long the widow gazed upon her
   Shining features, oh, so wan!

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   Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.

   History Edit

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Bernard Doherty

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   An Gabhlán, Co. Dhún na nGall

   Informant

   Bernard Doherty

   Relation

   Parent

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   46

   Address

   An Gabhlán, Co. Dhún na nGall