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School: Ballysadare (B.) (roll number 7410)

Location:
Ballysadare, Co. Sligo
Teacher:
Seán Mac Sitric
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0176, Page 057

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    About the year 600 A.D. there lived in Ballisodare a great saint called St Fechin and a few other monks. They had an abbey a short distance from where Ballisodare is now situated and beside the abbey was a mine which the monks worked. The mine yields silver and lead.
    During this time Ireland was been invaded by men known as the Norsemen. These men robbed and plundered the monasteries and schools . The invaders heard of the mine and made up their minds to go to the mine and
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. belief (~391)
        1. folk belief (~2,535)
          1. treasure legends (~7,411)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Thomas Neary
    Gender
    Male
    Informant
    Thomas Neary
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Ballysadare, Co. Sligo