School: Mount Collins, Mainistir na Féile (roll number 10107)
- Location:
- Mountcollins, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Pádraig Ó Coileáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0493, Page 370
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- St Ita is the saint traditionally connected with this district. Cill Ide Church about eight miles from here is in ruins.
StoryShe had an ass and she used milk the cows in Builead (This Buileadh is one quarter of a mile from this school) and the ass used carry the milk from Buileadh to Cill Ide without any guide. One day he was going through Tournafulla, a man set his dog after him and he ran back the way he came and jumped over a glen. Where he landed the print of his hoofs were to be seen on the stone. (This stone on which the prints were was broken and put in the New Road in Serbhán about three years ago and there used be light then there while the road was being made) When the ass went home to the saint there was a thorn in his leg and St Ita pulled it out and she stuck it in the ground and a bush grew there and the thorns were turned downwards towards the earth.She cursed Tournafulla and she said it would never be without a dwarf (and at present there is a dwarf there). She said that Tournafulla would never be without a smoky-house(continues on next page)
