School: Scoil Naomh Colmcille, Kilmacrennan (roll number 17036)
- Location:
- Kilmacrenan, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Mícheál Ó Gallchobhair
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1081, Page 95
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
Download
Open data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
A Story (continued)
“Before the present Protestant Church was erected in Kilmacrenan the previous one was situated at Kilmacrenan Abbey.”
(continued from previous page)One stone carved with some artistic floral design in Gothic style is still to be seen below the window of the Eastern gavel of the Protestant Church.A short time after this a new Catholic Church was being built in Termon, and some of these stones were secretly taken from the Protestant Church for the one in Termon. There were no guards at that time but there were Revenue Men. The Termon people were afraid of these men taking [the stones?] away, so they got three copies made of them. They hid the original stones and erected the three copies instead. They are still to be seen one above and one on either side of the window above the entrance door. The other stones are still in safe keeping in Termon.
- Collector
- Brighid Nic Suibhne
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Tawny Middle, Co. Donegal
- Informant
- James Sweeney
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 60
- Address
- Tawny Middle, Co. Donegal