School: Killorglin (C.) (roll number 12833)

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1. The Night of the Big Wind (continued)

   

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   A man named Tom McNulty 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 Patrick's Well

   
   (IV)

   Another family of the Burkes that lived near Skibbereen

   Were blown from Cork to Kerry; they came down at Caherciveen

   So pleasant was their journey as they rode upon the gale

   That ne'er a one of them woke up I've often heard the tale

   
   (V)

   In Limerick, thats my county, near the bogs of Ballygran,

   I used to hear me father tell how he and Pat McCann

   Were on their way home from a wake when men boreen and all

   
   Were wafted high up in the air and blown to Donegal

   
   (VI)

   It carried ricks of hay and grain across the River Lee,

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   History Edit

   Topics

   1. processes and phenomena
      1. winds (~357)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Dóla Ní Riordáin

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Killorglin, Co. Kerry