School: An Daingean, Cuinche
- Location:
- Dangan, Co. Clare
- Teachers: Stiofán Mac Clúin Treasa Ní Chonmara
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0596, Page 150
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27.V1.'38 A Story.
There was a monk one time in one of the first monasteries ever founded in the country .He was too lazy to shave on a Monday morning and so when the Abbot met him he asked him why he didn't shave and the monk said he did not like to begin the week shaving.The abbot said that was superstitious and that he had committed a sin.
The Abbot sent the monk out to an outhouse to see would he find anything in the Corner there.So the monk went out and found six silver eggs and a golden egg.When he brought them in the Abbot asked him did he see any difference in the six silver eggs and he said he didn't but that there was a difference between each of the silver eggs and the golden egg.The abbot told him that the golden-egg represented Sunday and the silver eggs the six days of the week and that there was no difference between them in any way.(continues on next page)
- Informant
- Matty Dannon
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Knopoge, Co. Clare
