School: Inis Céin
- Location:
- Enniskean, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Conchobhar Ó Haodha
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- (continued from previous page)The bloody "breall" she can neither knit nor sow, I'm sure she's the hell or a rauster,
She is a terrible fool, she is an ignorant clown; she is Mick the Púca's daughter."
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The following song entitled Enniskean was composed by John Crowley in about the year 1862 :-Enniskean
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"It was in the month of January we got our little salary,
Myself and old George Domery we fought on land and sea.
I returned to my native land on board the Regulator,
Slightly scarred or wounded without fear or mutilation,
For to spend some pleasant hours, in my grand old habitation
Among the lovely neighbours that live in Enniskean.
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II
I saw the great St Lawerence and the Nile that flows through Egypt,
The Tigris and Euphrates with its golden stream.
The Liffy, the Danube, the Boyne and Blackwater,
And the lovely river Lee, that flows into Cork Harbour.
But of all my strange ramblings there are none of them to equal
The lovely river Bandon that flows by Enniskean
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- Collector
- Séamus Ó Lordáin
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Enniskean, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Dick Long
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 73
- Occupation
- Labourer
- Address
- Enniskean, Co. Cork
