School: Druimín (roll number 9438)
- Location:
- An Droim Mín, Co. Liatroma
- Teacher: Tomás Ó Ceallaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0220, Page 260
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“There are no eels in Feengh Lake although they are to be got in the river flowing through it...”
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You are not logged in, but you are welcome to contribute a transcription anonymously. In this case, your IP address will be stored in the interest of quality control.By clicking the save button you agree that your contribution will be available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License and that a link to dúchas.ie is sufficient as attribution.- When Feenagh Abbey was being built a serpent used to come up out of Feenagh lake and knock as much of the work at night as was done the day before. St Keelan who was abbot at the time of the building chained him to the abbey walls. My uncle took me to the abbey and showed me the serpent's head but I noticed that there were for [four?] such figures on the four top corner stones of the walls and two smaller ones of the same shape at the bottom of the stone decoration outside the window in the far gable from the road. My uncle nearly got vexed with(continues on next page)