School: Clonmacnoise
- Location:
- Clonmacnoise, Co. Offaly
- Teacher: P. Ó Maolmhuaidh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0812, Page 064
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- (continued from previous page)The man from Creevaugh went into a lovely room with the floor covered in carpet and he got into a soft bed and lay down and went asleep.
When he wakened up in the morning he was shivering with the cold and he was lying naked under a whin bush with his clothes and boots left beside him.
- When St. Ciaran came to Clonmacnois there lived beside where the school is now, an old pagan chief whose name was Monruth. Around his Dún or fort was a great trench, and the waters of he Shannon, could fill it, when the chief liked.
This chief did not like St. Ciaran because he was bringing to his people a new religion which he did not want. However, one day St. Ciaran was(continues on next page) - Collector
- Mary Mac Evoy
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Pat Flannery
- Relation
- Grandparent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 80
