School: Monknewton (roll number 9696)
- Location:
- Monknewtown, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Maighréad Ní Mhurchadha
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- While Saint Patrick was in Ireland he had a man with him carring his vestments. One night while Saint Patrick was asleep on the bank of a river he said two curses and these are on the water and the rushes. That is why the top of the rushes are withered and the froth on the water.
From my grandmother I got the above legend.
- My uncle told me the following:- One day there was a man fishing on the river Nanny and Saint Patrick asked him for a salmon. He did not give him one. There was no salmon ever seen in the river Nanny after that.
- Collector
- Kevin Duggan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Dowth, Co. Meath
