School: An Clochar, Béal an Átha Móir (roll number 13614)
- Location:
- Ballinamore, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: An tSr. Áthracht
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0224, Page 405
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- (continued from previous page)about was, there was a hatchet lost or rather stolen and all the workmen denied any knowledge of it. So Saint Caillen [?] said there would be something there in the morning to prove who was the thief. In the morning the bell was there with instructions how to take the Dath on it. The first to take the Dath on it was the thief who immediately went mad. He ran and got the axe where he had it concealed, and put three gashes of it on a stone. This stone is somewhere in the grounds. About eighty years after a lengthy search it was found by a man named Pat Gublin who lived in a townland called Kilmore. It had then the three marks quite plain.On this cemetery where once stood the Catholic Church, now stands the Protestant place of worship. When the church was desecrated the tongue was pulled out of the bell alluded to and it went ringing across the angle of the lake a distance of three quarters of a mile. There was no account of it for a hundred years, until Woodford Forest was cut down and it was got in the heart of an oak tree, and continued to be used for swearing by. It used then(continues on next page)
- Informant
- Mr P. O Rourke
- Gender
- Male
- Occupation
- Undertaker
- Address
- Ballinamore, Co. Leitrim
