School: Taobh na Cruaiche (roll number 4494)
- Location:
- Teevenacroaghy, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: N. Ní Mhóráin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0138, Page 336
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- Ossian was one of the Fianna, and he had many dealings with Saint Patrick.
Once when Saint Patrick was reading Mass, Ossian asked him was there any salvation for the fallen angels but Saint Patrick did not answer until he had finished the Mass.
Then he asked the people who had spoken during Mass and they told him that it was Ossian. Then he went to Ossian and he spoke to him. Ossian told him that a little red man came to him and told him to ask if there was any salvation for the fallen angels. Patrick told Ossian that his days were at an end and he told him to make his grave and to lie within it, and to leave the spade and shovel over him in the shape of a cross. Then he red man came again to Ossian when he was laid in this manner. He would have harmed him but the cross saved him. The little red man told him to take the scraw of land and to cut it and that it would make a fire and that was the way the people first found the turf and he told him other things that were good for Ireland.
- Collector
- Nora Flanagan
- Gender
- Female
