School: Naomh Breandán (C.), Blennerville (roll number 16899)
- Location:
- Blennerville, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Bean Uí Mhuircheartaigh
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0440, Page 484
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- (continued from previous page)484To see them land in Clare.
It blew the peaks off Cuddies reeks
And leaped across the moor
Sure the people thought they all were killed
The way the wind did roar.In the County Tipperary
Not far from Templemore
A man named Tom Mc Nulty
And his wife and children four
Were lifted from their beds that night
The devil a lie I'll tell
And were carried bag and baggage
To the town of Patrickswell.Another family of the Burkes
That lived near Skibbereen
Were blown from Cork to Kerry.
And came down at Caherciveen.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Eily Breen
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Peter Breen
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 52
- Address
- Ballydunlea, Co. Kerry
