From what I understand, which I don't think is complete information, most of the Irish in Newfoundland were from Wexford and Waterford and were brought over by fish merchants before the famine. Supposedly very few famine Irish..but I suspect more than they think...and of course in more recent history lots of immigration from Ireland...

The Blasket Islanders I think tended to go to Chicopee and Springfield MA..I think that is where the last of them settled..lots of people from Dingle went there. But there was a cluster that seemed to travel and work together from Dingle to Niagra area and then worked on canals and ended up in NE Iowa...these little patterns are very interesting because the next town or so over they were from County Monaghan..these are very well documented..I am doing a very superficial genealogy study of the Dingle to Iowa group..have over 300 families..maybe just one entry where they were naturalized or got married and kept moving on..from Iowa many of next generation worked on railroads and moved on to Montana, Dakotas, and on to Washington..Seattle, Spokane, Tacoma. Also Dingle people often ended up in mines of Montana.

Anyway, there is this big study going on in ireland now to trace where people from particular places tended to settle, as they often did go in groups and also sent for family members and relatives..a geographer would have a great time with this. mg