School: Baile Lochnáin
- Location:
- Baile Uí Lachnáin, Co. Thiobraid Árann
- Teacher: Tomás Ó Domhnaill
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0531, Page 153
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Local Songs
“There are numerous songs made about local happenings which occur throughout the district.”
There are numerous songs made about local happenings which occur throughout the district. Some of these were composed by old inhabitants and put to different airs. One old common song was made a long time ago. The author is unknown. Some of the lines are thus:-"Despair in her wild eye, a daughter of Erin,
Appeared on the cliff of a bleak rocky shore,
Loose in the wind flowed her dark streaming ringlets,
And heedlessly she gazed on the dread surge's roar.
Loud rang her harp in wild tones despairing,
The time passed away with the present comparing
And in the soul thrilling strains(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Brigid Ní Dhulchonta
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Baile Uí Lachnáin, Co. Thiobraid Árann
- Informant
- Mrs Madden
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 76
- Address
- Baile Uí Lachnáin, Co. Thiobraid Árann