School: Clochar na Trócaire, Maghcromtha (roll number 10047)

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   was born in the fifth century in West Muskerry and is said to have been the daughter of a fierce pirate who included the robbing of shrines among his crimes. She is even stated to have accompanied him on some of his lawless expeditions having lost her mother while she was still only a baby.

   It was on a voyage with her pirate parent that she received the call to a higher life, and resolved to break with her evil companions. An opportunity for doing so came when the vessel anchored at length somewhere off the coast of Ireland from one of those ancient kinds, Connaire the Great, St. Gobnait is said to have been descended.

   The crew landed, and presently arrived in a lonely wood whose sheltering trees suggested the hope of escape to the young girl. The puzzle was which way to turn. While she hesitated, she was favoured with a vision, in which an angel told her to fear nothing, but placing confidence in God, go straight on till she came to where nine snow-white deer were sleeping. The angel added that the spot where she was destined to find the deer would one day be the place of her resurrection.

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   Topics

   1. events
      1. events (by time of year) (~11,476)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Bridie O Riordan

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Seanbhaile Sheáin, Co. Cork