School: Béal an Átha Móir (B.)
- Location:
- Ballinamore, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Seán Ó Heslin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0225, Page 176
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- An Soiscéal Molaise
agus An CumhdachPractically all the information about this given hereafter, except the little information got by seeing the Cumhdach in the National Museum later, was gor from the lateMr James McGowan b. 1846 (approx) near
Ballaghameehan Merchant, Kiltyclogher, Co. Leitrim, about 1925 or 1926. Mr McGowan died about 4yrs ago.
Go ndéanaidh Dia trócaiare ar a ainm.
The surname of St. Molaise was Meehan. He was a native of the little village of Ballaghameehan. Some of the older people about Ballaghameehan say that St. Molaise brought the Soiscéal from Rome. But others say that St. Molaise, when Abbot on Devenish Island, employed scribes to write it.The Soiscéal was a copy of the Gospels. St Molaise prized it very much and had it built into a wall which surrounded Tobar Molaise. When St. Molaise died none of the other monks knew where the copy of the Gospels was. Years(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Seán Ó h-Eslin
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Mr James Mc Gowan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Kiltyclogher, Co. Leitrim
