School: Cnoc na Biolaraighe
- Location:
- Watergrasshill, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Dll. Mac Carrthaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0382, Page 074
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Brenan on the Moor (continued)
“The following Ballad about Willie Brenan is taken from the Journal of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society-May 1892. ...”
(continued from previous page)Now Brenan with that blunderbuss
The truth I will unfold
He made the mayor to tremble
And he robbed him of his gold,
Ten hundred pounds in silver
From his body he took there
And then with, horse and saddle
To the mountains did repair.
Brenan on the moor, etc
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Now fare thee well my country
My wife, and children three
And you, my dearest mother
You may shed tears for me.
She took him in her arms,
And with her grey locks, she cried
'Ah, Willie Brenan would that in
Your cradle bed you'd died!'
Brenan on the moor etc.