School: Clochar
- Location:
- Clogher, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: M. Ó Gealbháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0095, Page 33
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- (continued from previous page)outer rampart of the Dun, and seeing the King approaching from afar, ran in haste to meet him.
"King Caral of the Wine Red Hand" said the Courier--"your wish will soon be fulfilled--A noble Abbey is springing to heaven even as your kingly orders were--one which will endure for all time: and will be a temple to the worship of God when the monastery wherein your Brother Ruarai sleeps in long will be but an old man's tale or a schoolboy's subject."
"You jest not" said Caral: "the light of truth shines in your face, and its accents ring in your voice but where may this Abbey be?"
To which the courier, briefly
"Ballintubber."(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Micheál Ó Gealbháin
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Seán Corkel
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballintober, Co. Mayo
