The Famine - Introduction
CBÉS 0649
Leathanach 125
1.
On the hedge on the hilltop where I often took my stand
And gazed all around to view the pleasant land
The Comeragh mountains were plain in view
And fair Newtown I saw it too.
With fair fields many that lay between
With briar grown dikes and hedges green
Cillémeglemúige and Cuillne at my feet I saw
And high leith-hardán towards Portlaw.2.
The Curraghmore steeple bloomed up high
Above Clonagam where the
On the hedge on the hilltop where I often took my stand
And gazed all around to view the pleasant land
The Comeragh mountains were plain in view
And fair Newtown I saw it too.
With fair fields many that lay between
With briar grown dikes and hedges green
Cillémeglemúige and Cuillne at my feet I saw
And high leith-hardán towards Portlaw.2.
The Curraghmore steeple bloomed up high
Above Clonagam where the