Kanturk In Duhallow

For legendary G A A players a place of renown
Kanturk in Duhallow a famous old Town
Where Allow towards the Blackwater winds it's way down
By the home of Duhallow's singer of old Ballads the great singer musician Tim Browne

Nearby Derrygallon the  birth-place of a winner of two time Olympic hammer throwing gold
The legendary Pat O Callaghan of his greatness many stories told
In Amsterdam and Los Angeles he became famed Worldwide
The man of whom greatness cannot be denied

The saint in life Edel Quinn in Kanturk has a Hall in her name
To live  as a great person was her claim to fame
Though deceased for many decades her fame it has grown
One of many Kanturk people to become widely known

Though only in fancy i visit there again
Good memories of Kanturk with me does remain
Where Allow to the Blackwater goes babbling along
 The old waterway famed in story and song

In Kanturk from here far north and far away
I would be  just an aging stranger today
Where i used to visit a  few decades ago
Before time did age me and became my foe.