School: Naomh Breandán (C.), Blennerville (roll number 16899)
- Location:
- Blennerville, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Bean Uí Mhuircheartaigh
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- (continued from previous page)With her stately silent tread
That has caused this needless dread,"(19)
Reader, dear! do not rebuke,
This once victim of a spook,
Though it ended in a fluke.
R.Mc.K.(1) Castlegregory, Co. Kerry. (2) From midnight to cock-crow is the reputed time for the appearance of pookas, (3) I made the sign of the cross on myself several times; (4) The ghost of the Dowager Countess of Desmond, "the black Princess "was said to have been often seen roaming at night through Kerry the territory of he rmurdered husband; (5) The ghost of the famous "Black Priest" Fr. Maurice Moriarty, P.P. of Killiney, A.D. 1817. "Soggarth Dubh"; (6) Cloven hoof and tail attributed to the devil; (7) Titan a mythological giant.This poem was composed by Canon McKenna of Southend-on-Sea, whp was born at Ballingown, near Castlegregory, Co Kerry.- Collector
- Eileen O' Shea
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Castlegregory, Co. Kerry
- Informant
- Mrs M. Somers
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 73
- Address
- Castlegregory, Co. Kerry