School: Cill Mháille (B.), Inis (roll number 14468)

Location:
Kilmaley, Co. Clare
Teacher:
Tomás Ó Cuinneáin
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  1. 373
    Letters,etc.
    Thos J Westropp 31 st Jan 1917.
    Máille -a local man.
    43. If St Máille ever really existed he would have appear to have achieved merely a local reputation.His name is not given in the Calendar of Irish Saints published by the C J.S though Eneach the patron saint Inagh is.Fr Roche told me that some old man in Lisroe, Kilmaley told him that St Máille came from Galway and lived in a little cell beside the Kilmaley river near where the churchyard and Blessed Well now are.Prof Tomás O Máille of Galway said he did not think there was any such saint,and that there was no tradition in their family of a saint of the name .I think it is very probable that the saint was a local holy man or hermit .That is all the more likely as there are Maleys still in the district.if he had ever been canonized there must be a record of him somewhere .I do not think the C.I.S.list is by any means exhausted.
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    Language
    English
    Informant
    Liam O' Looney
    Gender
    Male