School: Cill Gharbh, Clanna Caoilte (roll number 10499)
- Location:
- Kilgarriff, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Adelaide Mac Carthy
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0312, Page 020
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“There is an Island about three miles outside Clonakilty which is called Inchydoney.”
(continued from previous page)stars to Him he soul loved best.IV
He showed Her to his sailors and they hailed her with a cheer,
And on the kneeling Virgin they gazed with laugh and jeer,
And madly swore a form so fair they never saw before,
And cursed the faint and lagging breeze that kept them from the shore.V
The ocean from its bosom shook off the moonlight sheen,
And up the wrathful billows rose to vindicate their Queen,
And a cloud came o'er the Heavens and a darkness o'er the land,
And the scoffing crew beheld no more the lady on the land.VI
Out burst the peeling thunder and the lightning leapt about,
And rushing with his watery war, the tempest gave a shout,
And that vessel from a mountain [?] came down with thund'ring shock,(continues on next page)
- Collector
- May Donovan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Clonakilty, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Mrs M. Donovan
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 50
- Address
- Clonakilty, Co. Cork