School: Beárna Dhearg (B) (roll number 14633)
- Location:
- Barnaderg, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Flaithrí Ó Súilleabháin
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0026, Page 0231
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen 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
- St Patrick had a great sympathy not only with men, but with the lower animals also. He noted two trout that frequented the streamlet still flowing by the roadside. They became his pets, and even these he parted from with regret.From the earliest Christian days the fish was a sacred symbol. The Apostles were at first fishers in the water, and afterwards became fishers of men. The very letters of the word in the Greek Alphabet alphabet, were holy symbols, and hence the trout living in the wells and streams, whose waters were used in Baptism, had themselves something of a sacred character, and the acts and sayings of St. Patrick gave encouragement to this idea which has not(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Patrick Mc Hugh
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Barnaderg, Co. Galway
