School: Clochar na Trócaire, Ceannanus Mór
- Location:
- Kells, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Siúracha na Trócaire
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0703, Page 015
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- (continued from previous page)the stones in her apron.
They also say, there is a well under the Round Tower, and it will spring up some day, and it will drown Kells.
They also say there was a great chief named O'Melaghlin and that he slept three nights in the Round Tower, but the third night he was caught and murdered.
- I live beside St. Columba's House. It is all built of stone even the roof of it. St. Columba had a stone bed and a stone pillow and a stone chair in his house. He had a rope ladder, and when he used to go up it he used to pull it after him so that the people would not disturb him while he was writing the Book of Kells.St. Columba used to go from his house down to the church by an underground passage.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Ellie Grimes
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 12
