School: Ballycumber (C.)
- Location:
- Ballycumber, Co. Offaly
- Teacher: Mrs Fenelon
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0810, Page 348
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- Saint Manchan is the Patron Saint of this parish. He lived in Leamonaghan in the 6th century. He had a cow which supplied the whole of Leamonaghan with milk and he never charged a penny for it and that custom is kept up in Leamonaghan to this day.
One night the cow was stolen and he missed her the next morning. Everywhere she went she left the track of her hoof and that is how he traced her. It is said that when he got her she was boiling in a pot and he took her up and put her together.
- After the death of St. Manchan the people of Leamonaghan and Killmonaghan were quarrelling as to which place the(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Brigid Concannon
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Bellair or Ballyard, Co. Offaly
- Informant
- Mrs Concannon
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 42
- Address
- Bellair or Ballyard, Co. Offaly
