The Pride Of Duhallow

She lived in Duhallow near old Kanturk Town
A beautiful young woman with eyes of light brown
And dark wavy hair close to her life's prime
Though this is going back many Seasons in time

She went off for to live in the U S of A
And she would be in her early fifties today
She left a young lovelorn Kanturk man in tears
But most love aches do heal in the passing of years

She was the rose of Kanturk as well as the pride
Of the Barony of Duhallow's green old countryside
One wonders where she might be living today
And did time as it can do steal some of her beauty away

Into an attractive young woman she did grow
In that beautiful place where old Allow does flow
Adventurous and too young then to be anyone's wife
And in Kanturk she would not live all of her life

As she age perhaps all of her beauty she does not retain
But in all who knew of her fond memories will remain
Of the Pride of Duhallow who lived near Kanturk Town
Of raven shoulder length hair and eyes of light brown.