Here's how the song appears in The Popular Poets and Poetry of Ireland by Richard Nagle (Boston: Richard Nagle, 1887), page 673:


THE COUNTIES OF IRELAND.

1. Here's to Donegal
And her people brave and tall.
Here's to Antrim, to Leitrim, and Derry.
Here's to Cavan and to Louth.
Here's to Carlow in the South.
Here's to Longford, to Waterford, and Kerry!

CHORUS: Then clink glasses, clink.
'Tis a toast for all to drink,
And let every voice come in at the chorus;
For Ireland is our home,
And wherever we may roam,
We'll be true to the dear land that bore us.

2. Here's to Tyrone,
Where O'Neill long held his own.
Here's to Monaghan, Fermanagh, and Kildare, boys.
Here's to her whose stroke
Broke the hateful penal yoke,
And you know that's the brave County Clare, boys.

3. Here's to Sligo, and to Down,
To Armagh of old renown.
Here's to Kilkenny, famed in story.
Here's to Wexford, o'er whose name
Shines a crown of deathless fame,
And here's to Royal Meath and her glory!

4. Here's to Galway and Mayo,
That never feared a foe.
Here's to Wicklow, its peaks and its passes.
Here's to Limerick, famed o'er all
For its well-defended wall,
And still more for the beauty of its lasses!

5. Here's to gallant Cork,
The next county to New York.
Here's to Roscommon bright and airy.
Here's to Westmeath,
Where a tyrant scarce can breathe;
And here's to unconquered Tipperary!

6. Queen's County, too, we'll toast,
And the King's, for both can boast
They are spots the invader got some trouble in;
And now to finish up,
Fill a bright and brimming cup,
And we'll drink, boys, to jolly little Dublin!


[Queen's County – former name of County Laois]

[King's County = former name of County Offaly]

[This song is quoted, or perhaps alluded to, in James Joyce's Ulysses, and several books of annotations to Ulysses have identified the song as "The Thirty-Two Counties" by Timothy Daniel Sullivan (1827-1914). One of them says the words are in Walton's Treasury of Irish Songs and Ballads, page 91.]