School: Tamhnach (roll number 12666)
- Location:
- Tawnagh, Co. Ros Comáin
- Teacher: Máire Ní Argáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0269, Page 215
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- (continued from previous page)Turroch House. Miss Kelly jumped from one of the windows and rode away with him.
Another of Kelly’s daughters was stolen away by some man who lived in Lough Crón (?). This seemed to have enraged him even more than the daughters elopment with William Keogh.
At this time a poetess named Anna Dunne lived in either Cam or Brideswell. She is said to have been illiterate as she was never at school. Yet her poems must have been taken down in Irish or else she learned off in the rambling houses.
She composed verses about Miss Kelly and her abduction to Lough Crón. The only lines remaining are –
“He stole the bird from the branch”
The Dúbdálach bréagach that lived(continues on next page)
