School: Robinstown (roll number 9039)
- Location:
- Robinstown, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Teresa Coyne
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- Christmas Morn Mass
About a quarter of a mile (up the Bective Avenue) from Clady Church there was a house in which an old woman dwelt alone.
At midnight every Christmas Eve some one called the old woman. She went down to the ruins of Clady Church where there was a priest saying Mass. The Church looked the same as if it were whole, though it was in ruins. She assisted at Mass and then returned home.
Where Clady Church Is Built
It is said that when Clady Church was being built it was being built farther up away from the Boyne (it is on the banks of the Boyne where the Clady river flows into the Boyne). The Boyne is on one side of the churchyard and the Clady river on the other side. There is a back entrance into the burying ground. It is necessary to cross the river and there is a little bridge which is supposed to be one of the oldest bridges in Ireland over it.
Every morning the workmen would find whatever part of the building they were working at the previous day moved from the place they had built it to where it is now. Though(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Cormac Mac Kenna
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Gillstown, Co. Meath
- Informant
- James Mac Cormack
- Relation
- Grandparent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 90
- Occupation
- Gardener
- Address
- Gillstown, Co. Meath
