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School: Clonmacnoise

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Clonmacnoise, Co. Offaly
Teacher:
P. Ó Maolmhuaidh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0811, Page 231

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  1. The Man with the Twenty-Five Children

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    Once upon a time there was a man in this part of the country. He had twenty-five children and as the times were bad he was not able to rear them. So he put them into a “Kish” and put the Kish on a cart. He brought them down to the Shannon near Clonmacnois to Drown them. Just as he was taking the kish off the cart St Ciaran came along and asked what he had there. He said he had little pigs to drown. St Ciaran took the cover off the kish and saw the children inside. So he took the children from the man and gave one to each of twenty-five houses across the Shannon. There they
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    History Edit
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Brendan Molloy
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Clonmacnoise, Co. Offaly
    Informant
    Ann Kilmartin
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    90
    Address
    Creevagh, Co. Offaly