School: Nutgrove (roll number 10126)
- Location:
- Mullagh, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Emily Ní Aonghusa
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0482, Page 336
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- (continued from previous page)Knockpatrick, and recite the rosary at the well.When a boy, Senan's father wanted him to be a soldier, but he objected, and he hid himself in a stack of hay, and his soldiers were attracted by a light shining round the hay stack. They caught him, and they let him go, because they thought he was an angel from heaven. He had to fight a great battle against his enemies. Senan lived in Scattery island on the Shannon. He went to Rome, and became a bishop, and on returning to Ireland, he built a monastery on the Lee, and he visited the two sisters of St. Brendan. He proceeded northwards to the Shannon, and landed on Scattery island.On the island lived a chieftain called Mactail who wanted the island for himself, and when St. Senan banished the monsters that destroyed the place, Mactail said he would kill the saint.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Teresa Walsh
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Lisbane, Co. Limerick
