Clara Was There

Where old Clara Mountain as ever looks down
The changes keep on happening in Millstreet Town
And though not everyone the praise of change wish to sing
Change for the better can be a good thing

In Millstreet Town nowadays many people living there
Who in recent years arrived from Nations elsewhere
Duhallow is now a multicultural place
It is no longer a Barony of only one race

Before the first people arrived to live in Duhallow and Sliabh Luachra the Boggeragh Mountains on the countryside looked down
And Clara existed long before Millstreet Town
Clara as the countryside it overlooks stood without a name
To be timeless of the mountains is their claim to fame

The Celts as history records are not Ireland first race
The people who lived there before them they did displace
For God and for Country so much blood has been shed
And in Ireland like in every other Country they make heroes of their war dead

In a multicultural Ireland in the twenty first century
It is good to know people live in harmony
Live for your Country for it do not die
Whoever first said this was not telling a lie

On the countryside now known as Duhallow and Sliabh Luachra without a name looking down
Clara was there before men built Millstreet Town
The Boggeraghs were there before the first people came
And to be timeless is their claim to fame.