School: Báinseach, Cill Chaoi (roll number 11714)
- Location:
- Kildeema, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Donncha Mac Cárthaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0625, Page 351
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- (continued from previous page)and from that to Mount Callen.
A bell fell from heaven to St. Senan on a little hill outside near Bansha. There was a roar outside my house in Kildimo and St. Senan used pass along that road to a Convent called Coill na gCoileach which was further down.
- St Senan is the patron saint of Coirce-Baiscin which is West Clare. St. Senan built seven churches and a monastery and it is also said that the round tower was built in his time. He was born in Molougha where there is a blessed well and a ruined chapel and a lake which was 3 miles around it 20 (?) years ago and now it is a quarter of a mile around it. The 8th of March is his feast day. St Patrick foretold from a hill in Co. Limerick when he could not go to Clare on account of his old age but he said that in a hundred years time a man would come(continues on next page)
- Collector
- John O' Shea
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Tullaher, Co. Clare
- Informant
- Mrs Cunningham
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 42
- Address
- Tullaher, Co. Clare
