School: Shrule (roll number 7795/7796)
- Location:
- Shrule, Co. Galway
- Teacher: (name not given)
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- Bhí fear in a chomhnuidhe ins an sean caisleán i Sruthar. Bhí a lán colúir aige agus gach la leig sé amach na colúir le bheith ag eitilt agus chuaidh na colúir go dtí an chnoch seo agus luigheadar ann. . Fuair an cnoch a ainm ó sin Cnoch na Colúir. Ta an cnoch seo ar cúll Sruthair.
- Collector
- Tomás Ó Cnámhtáin
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Máire Ní Chnámhtáin
- Gender
- Female
- The monks who built the abbey at Ross were going to built it at Moyne but doves came and flew over the monks. They took up a straw in their mouths and left it at Ross. That was a sign that the monks were not to build the abbey there and they built it at Ross.
