School: Clonmacnoise
- Location:
- Clonmacnoise, Co. Offaly
- Teacher: P. Ó Maolmhuaidh
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- (continued from previous page)Church. This tower the local people tell us had a large bell hanging in it, and it disappeared in 1552 when the English completely destroyed Clonmacnois, and it now hangs in the belfry of St Mary's Protestant Church Athlone.
Some people say the Church and tower is Fineen McCarthy's because the local people say it was given to McCarthy as a Mortuary Chapel for his people.
Inside in the little chapel there is a hole in the wall where people put in their heads to cure headaches. They leave something in the hole like a button or a penny and when they do
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- Master Molloy
- Gender
- Male
- Occupation
- Teacher
- Address
- Clonmacnoise, Co. Offaly
