School: Glendalough
- Location:
- Glendalough, Co. Wicklow
- Teacher: Bean Uí Ghabhann
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One day St. Kevin met a woman on "the Green Road" in Glendalough and she had her apron filled with loaves. She said if St. Kevin asked her for bread I will say they are stones. He knew what was in her mind and he stopped her and asked her for bread. She said it was stones she had.
St. Kevin said if they are stones that they may turn into bread, and if they are loaves that they may turn to stones. When the woman got home her apron was full of stones.
- Collector
- Máirín Ní Dhomhnaill
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Glendalough, Co. Wicklow
- Informant
- Andy Mc Donnell
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 60
- Address
- Glendalough, Co. Wicklow
