And when i take my long last sleep and death shall come to me
then lay me down by that old town beneath the hills and sea
Ill take my sleep in those green fields where first my life began
where the Boys of barr na Sraide went hunting for the wren.

On the other 'Barr na Sraide' thread the above verse was said by Mr O Curnain to have been written by Dan Courtney. If so, what I can't understand is why a man from Dromid, about eight miles southeast as the crow flies from Cahersiveen but closer to 20 by road, should write 'that old town...where first my life began'. And also want to be buried there. Why didn't he write about his love of Dromid?

btw, my apologies to Robert Burns, he didn't crib the word 'thine' from Ramsay. My mistake.