School: Carn (roll number 12537)
- Location:
- Knocknashammer, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Mícheál Ó Miadhaigh
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When he arrived at Glenasmole near Dublin he saw five or six men working at a strange building, of a kind that he had never seen before. it was a christian church, for St. Patrick was now in Ireland.
The men were trying to put up a stone on a cart, which was very big, but it was too heavy for them. He came up to them and said, "What weak men you are that cannot lift that" said Oisin "I could take it up with one hand." He bent down to lift it and he had it just lifted when the girt of his saddle broke and he fell to the ground.
The minute Oisin's feet touched the ground he became a weak old man. When the white horse found the rider gone off its back he went off for Tir-na-Nog and never came back to Ireland again. Later Oisin met St. Patrick, and they had a conversation.
- Collector
- Jennie Cawley
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Knocknashammer, Co. Sligo
- Informant
- Patrick Cawley
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 54
- Address
- Knocknashammer, Co. Sligo
