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School: Gortaveha (roll number 16488)

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Gortaveha, Co. Clare
Teacher:
P. Wiley
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0592E, Page 03_038

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  1. The Prophecy of Colmcille. (continued)

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    a fist of sand and throw it at them the will have to go back. They shall be stopped below Gort. He stood beyond where Clonnescer chapel is and said a chapel shall be built on that very spot, and some Sunday they people shall go in to Mass in peace and when they will come out they will go knee deep in Orange blood.

    Before the end of the world there shall come three years of great scarcity and then three years of great plentiness. If a man had only two cows and go to the fair with one. He would get so much money for her
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    History Edit
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Cáit Ní Chorra
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Derryfadda, Co. Clare
    Informant
    Thomas Corry
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    60
    Address
    Derryfadda, Co. Clare