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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0078, Page 275

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    In Brian Mannion's field in Gurteen there is a stone with a cross on it. It is about a mile from the monastery in Cloonkeen Kerril and about a hundred yards in from the road. The stone was to mark the distance that the monks had leave to walk from Cloonkeen Kerril.
    There was a stone in a field about a mile from Tample cross-roads called 'Leacht an Ghlúin'. It is said that when St. Kerril was coming from Cloonkeen to kill the serpent in Gortnalon that he knelt on that stone and left the mark of his knees on the stone.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. objects
      1. man-made structures
        1. historical and commemorative structures (~6,794)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Nora Cannon
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Gortnalone North, Co. Galway
    Informant
    Ned Connaughton
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    83
    Address
    Temple, Co. Galway