School: Clonmacnoise
- Location:
- Clonmacnoise, Co. Offaly
- Teacher: P. Ó Maolmhuaidh
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- (continued from previous page)the nun's church.
It is not opened up yet but we expect to see it opened up soon. Nobody is let touch it.
People take away the clay off St Ciaran's grave and shake it in the corners of the corn-field. They say it kills the worm that eats the corn.
- O'Connor's Church was built in the year 1,000 by one of the O'Connors of Roscommon and is the mortuary Church of 'The O'Connor'. It was destroyed by the English on several occasions and was repaired by the Church-body about twenty-five years ago(continues on next page)
