School: Kingsland
- Location:
- Kingsland, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Pádraig Ó Ceallaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0238, Page 228
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- Local Saints
We do not know much about the saints that lived in Ireland long ago. In our own district there are three saints that we have heard about. St. Patrick, St. Attracta, St. Asicus. Above Frenchpark there is a place called Rath Croghan. A King lived at this place and he had two daughters. They knew nothing about the true God. Early one morning these two girls went to the well for water. It happened St. Patrick meet them at the well. He knew they were not christians. He instructed them in their faith. They asked to be baptised. So St. Patrick baptised them at the well. There is a holy well in Kilnamanagh called St. Patrick's well. There is another in Killaraght called St. Attracta's well. St. Attracts divided the waters of Lough Gara one time. St. Attracta's feast day is not a holiday of obligation. St. Patrick's day is a holiday of obligation. It is kept on the 17th March. A saint lived in Elphin called St. Asicus. He was the first bishop of our diocese.
- Collector
- Annie Kenny
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Patrick Kenny
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 50
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Tonroe or Feenagh, Co. Roscommon
