Joan Mcsweeney

In her prime years among Duhallow and Sliabh Luachra beauties she was one to the fore Joan Twomey of Rathduane between Millstreet and Rathmore As Mrs McSweeney in Killarney she raised her family But to live to a very old age for her was not meant to be Perhaps in her early to mid sixties nowadays this is not old I remember her as dark brown haired, young and lovely to behold One of those nice people who was free of conceit Friendly in her ways and a pleasure to meet She surely was a credit to her mum and her dad And to learn of her passing from life is to say the least sad Rathduane's loss in her became Killarney's gain And in her family, relatives and friends good memories of her will remain In St Mary's cemetery in Millstreet her last remains lay From her first home in Rathduane in kilometers not far away.