School: Cromadh (C.) (roll number 9307)

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   “Bounded by the lake at one side is a farm owner by a man named Martin Ryan, and at the time this story happened, by his father John Ryan.”

   

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   back to the 6th or 7th century, stand in the Church-yard of Killogholehane, about a mile from the village of Broadford in the same parish. This, doubtless, is the Church of which the above is a legend. About two miles away from it is Kileedy, where St. Ita established her convent and in all probability it was a group of nuns from this convent who were connected with Kilogholehane.

   A very similar legend is told of a Church in Rome, also dedicated to Our Lady of the Snows. A miniature of this church, too is supposed to have been shown it its founder, in snow, on a summer morning in Rome.

   

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   “The legend of how a glen, near Kilogholehane named "Gleann-a-capaill", got its name is proof that in early Christian times in Ireland the laity received the Blessed Sacrament under both species.”

   

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   The legend of how a glen near Kilogholehane named "Gleann-a-capaill", got its name is a proof that in early Christian times in Ireland the laity received the Blessed Sacrament under both species.

   This is the legend. It was a very hot day and the workers in a meadow near the Church were parched with thirst. One woman became so desperate with the thirst that she went into the Church and took from the altar a chalice of Consecrated wine and drank it. In punish

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   1. agents (~1)
      1. supernatural and legendary beings (~14,864)

   Language

   English

   Informant

   Reverend Fr Kirby

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Croom, Co. Limerick