School: Gleann Doire (C.) (roll number 10404)
- Location:
- Glenderry, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Cáit Bean Uí Gléathabhúir
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0417D, Page 02_038
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- (continued from previous page)Bishop on being consulted told the monks that light revealed that a great saint of the Church was born that night.
That night they set out from Keelmacada, found the new born Babe, whom Bishop Erc baptised and who was no other than the great St Brendan.
The ruins of the old monastery are still to be seen a few hundred yards to the east of the old Church Keelmacada. Nothing is now left but a pile of stones surrounded by grassy mound although until recent years, a stone image of St Ida was to be seen in what was once the gable of the old monastery. This(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary Flahive
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Glenderry, Co. Kerry
- Informant
- Thomas Bowler
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 80
