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   “Oh Coolkelure, sweet Coolkelure the home of beauty rare”

   

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   IV
   The mansion grand though desolate
   Is lovely as of yore,
   The scenery surrounding it
   Enhancing it the more.
   The wooded slopes along the lake
   Will homage oft divide
   With the pretty ivymantled church
   Most picturesque beside
   V
   St Edmund's school, the churchyard neat
   The Rectory and all
   While here & there a choice retreat
   Will on the vision fall
   And when the mists from Owen clear
   No sky on earth so pure
   As the blue transcendent one
   Above you, Coolkelure.
   VI
   Would I could sing, the whole day long
   Like Autumn's gentle breeze,
   Or outrival the wild birds' song,
   That rings amidst your trees
   Your beauty then would famous be
   And tourists I'd assure
   There's not within the Irish Isle
   A vale like Coolkelure.

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   History Edit

   Topics

   1. seánra
      1. filíocht
         1. filíocht na ndaoine (~9,504)

   Language

   English

   Informant

   Mrs Beamish

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   An Maolán, Co. Chorcaí