School: Slattagh (roll number 13879)
- Location:
- Moher, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Brian Ó Baoighill
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0256, Page 059
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- (continued from previous page)felled the monster to earth and where he fell a pond of water spun that remains to be seen today. Where St. Barry fell a beautiful well sprung up and to this day it is called St. Barry's well.
Beneath the statue of St. Barry a white-hall church the boat of stone in which St. Barry sailed often across the lakes can be seen to-day. The boat sank any time crossing lake after St. Barry's death but its exact position in the water was always known and it was raised by a priest and placed where it now stands, in past generations.
Epitaph
"Stay passenger as you pass by. As you are now so once was I. As I am now so you will be. So take your cross and follow me."
"Clondra cemetery Headstone is beside the road."(continues on next page)
