"St. Brendan's Voyage" is a modern Irish folk song, written by Christy Moore, and released on his 1985 album Ordinary Man.
It opens, however, with a four-line expository verse which establishes the year of the narrative as 501 A.D., and suggests that Brendan's motivation for leaving was that he was "tired of thinning turnips and cutting curly kale."
But it quickly turns comic, offering that Long Island was discovered, and America "put... on the map" as a result of Brendan stopping to purchase candles.
The second verse deals with his arrival in County Kerry, where he "clear[s] through customs," and visits Dingle, Ballyferriter, the Conor Pass, and finally Brandon.
However, the festivities turn sour when Brendan announces that he intends to marry-- "to seek a wife so late in life, and him a total wreck."