School: Baile an Mhuilinn
- Location:
- Milltown, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Bean Uí Shigín
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0157, Page 353
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- (continued from previous page)and local History. The panels are beautifullly carved with patterns of interlacing and the workmanship points to the tenth century.Where the present Protestant Church of Ahamplish stands, there was a famous monastic building. Close by is the celebrated Tobar Molaise, which takes its name from Molaise, the patron saint of the place."Were it not for Molaise's words
At the Cross of Ahamplish -
I would not now permit
Disease or distemper in Ireland."This is an extract from an old poem ascribed to Saint Columba who received his sentence of exile from St. Molaise at Ahamplish Cross. The exact site of this Cross cannot now be discerned.Epitaphs in verse are not so common in Ireland as they are in England and other countries, and very few of them are to be met with in the County Sligo. In Ballysadare graveyard, over the grave of a person named Lloyd, we(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Ada Shaw
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballynagalliagh, Co. Sligo
- Informant
- Miss E. Shaw
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 96
- Address
- Ballynagalliagh, Co. Sligo
