School: Clochar na Toirbhirte, Lic Snámha (roll number 11849)
- Location:
- Lixnaw, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: An tSr. Gabriel
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0410, Page 311
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- Around about the monument are stones jutting up from the ground known to be tombs or graves. The graveyard stretches from the monument down to the nun's fort. Tradition tells us that there was a little church there also dedicated to St. Benignus and to this day the place bears the name of Cill Benign. Another fact which goes to prove that there was a monastery there is that clumps of garden flowers sometimes appear above the ground, this shows that there was once a cultivated garden there. There are people living in the village to the present day who owned plots of ground about the monument. One woman in particular remembers bones and limbs of human(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Jenny Trant
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Clogher, Co. Kerry
- Informant
- Mary Brosnan
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 75
- Address
- Lixnaw, Co. Kerry
