School: Scoil na Móna Fliche (Moanflugh) (roll number 10272)
- Location:
- Moanflugh, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Diarmuid Ó Deasmhumhnaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0326, Page 038
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- In the townland of Kilpatrick there is a place where people go to pray and perform rounds in honour of the great Saint. The place where they pray was once a graveyard. There is a stone with a hollow in the centre which always contains water.
- Collector
- Sheila Mc Sweeney
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 9
- Address
- Coolaniddane, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Mrs John Mc Sweeney
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 42
- Address
- Coolaniddane, Co. Cork
- How Saint Patrick cursed the tailors. As St Patrick was travelling on his circuit of Ireland a button one day fell off his coat and he asked a tailor to sew it on again."You are poor enough to do your own business!" answered the tailor."Pride and poverty be your lot for ever!" said Saint Patrick.
