School: Easgéiphtine (C.) (roll number 2040)
- Location:
- Askeaton, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Áine, Bean Mhic Eoin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0503, Page 148
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You are not logged in, but you are welcome to contribute a transcription anonymously. In this case, your IP address will be stored in the interest of quality control.By clicking the save button you agree that your contribution will be available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License and that a link to dúchas.ie is sufficient as attribution. - A legend tells us of a man who had to do penance which was to search the length and breadth of Ireland until he found a place called Gort na Súdaire. There he was to build an Abbey.
He travelled all through the provinces until he came to Munster. His journeys brought him to Askeaton. As he was facing the town, and when passing by a cottage he heard the women of the house calling her son Johnnie to go for the goats. He said he would but did not know where they were. His mother told him they were in 'Gort na Súdaire'. Johnnie went away. He crossed a ford to the little field where the goats were; the stranger quietly followed him.On returning with the goats the boy fell. He cursed the goats and said that only for them he would not have fallen. The stranger then spoke for the first time and said that only for the goats he would not have found 'Gort na Súdaire' and that his feet were weary from travelling through Ireland looking for that place.
