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School: Dromakeenan

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Drumakeenan, Co. Offaly
Teacher:
C. Ní Fhallamhain
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0818, Page 138

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0818, Page 138

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    but they dont know which was St Kieran
    A tree grew on the road where the coffin was left and it is there still.
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    St Patrick told St Kieran to build a chapel and he gave him a bell. He told him wherever the bell would ring he was to build the chapel. The bell rang when he was near a bush and the bush was called Bell Bush. The present chapel is built beside the bush.
    When you are passing the bush of St Kieran you are supposed to go your own side of the bush if you don't you will meet with an accident. Long ago a man and a party of friends were going to a dinner in the
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