Colman" -The Round Tower of Saint Colman"

Bíodar tuairim is fiche slat o'n áit a raibh Colmán nuair a chonnaic an buachail iad ag teacht agus taínic faitchíos air. Dubhairt Colmán gan faitchíos a bheith air agus a dothain a ithe. Tosuigh Colmán ag paideáreacht arís agus ar an bpoinnte sin greamuighead crúba na gcapaill do na leachracha agus d'fhan siad sin go raibh a ndothain ithte ag an mbeirt aca. Nuair a raibh an béilí críochnuigh aca sgaoileadh crúba na Capail agus tháinic Guaire chomh fada le Colmán. Dith sé feín agus a chuid fhir a ndothain freisín. Nuair a d'innis Colmán a sgéal go Guaire tháinic iongnadh air agus tháinic iognadh air Colmán nuair a fuair sé amach gur dínnéir Guaire a bhí aige. Thug Guaire an buachail leis annsin is ní ocras air uaidh sin amach. Tá rian cosa na gCapaill le feicsint ins na leacracha fós agus beidh go deo thuas i sleibhte na Bóirne agus tá leabaidh Naomh Colmán ann freisin.Tugadh Bothar na Mias air uaidh sin amach. Ú. Ní Fhaoláin, Dubhros

nuig Colmán ag paidirreóracht. An noméid ceadhna bí Dúach rí Connachta ag ithte, agus eirig ma míosa agus cuaidh siad go dthí an áit a Colmán, agus tainig Dúach agus a aeam ina diadh, Núair a connaich an fear iad ag teacht bí eagle ar, acht do tosnuig Colmán ag paidrróraoch agus do ceargladh cosa na gcapall leis an talamh ag [?] dein [?] aon rud do Colmán.

St Colman had a place in Gort and another in Kinvara at this time. On Easter Sunday he made a big feast at Kinvara and invited all his friends except St Colman. This vexed him and he prayed to God for help. So just when all was ready at the palace and the dishes of the food on the table, the dishes and forks and knives arose and went through the palace windows and went through the air until they reached the place where St Colman was. Then they lodged on the ground and St Colman and the mass server sat down to eat but just then they saw Guaire and his army coming on their horses. The mass server did not know what to do but St Colman told him not to mind. He prayed to God a second time and the horses hoofs were stuck to the rocks and they could not move. Then they both eat enough and then the saint prayed to let the horses free so Guaire and his army came and begged St Colman ------.
The tracks of the horses hoofs and dishes and forks and knives are to be seen there still. The road on which the

The Black Friar of Mayo AbbeyAt the time that the school was in Mayo Abbey there lived a man in Liscolman, Brickens, Claremorris named Colman. He was very poor and he had six children. He had to sell all his stock until nothing remained but an old cow. He decided to sell her also. One morning he set out for the fair of Claremorris with the cow. When he reached Ballygowan, Claremorris there was a hawthron bush by the roadside. He saw a tiny little man hopping about the bush. He asked Colman where he was going and Colman told him. When asked how much did he want for the cow Colman said five pounds. The little man offered him a tiny little mill about the size of an alarm clock. He left the mill on the road and a tiny little miller about the size of a bee came out of it. The little man said "Grind" to the miller and the mill at once began working and soon there was a heap of oatmeal on the road. Then Colman took the mill and went home.
When he reached home he left the mill on the table and told it to grind. It did as before and the man and his family had a good meal of stirabout. But Colman was not satisfied until it would grind money and he asked it to grind gold. It started grinding and it filled the table with gold. After that Colman and his family were never in want. But some of his relatives heard about the mill and they resolved to steal it.

The patron Saint of this district is St. Colman

Saint Colman is the patron saint of Gort and Kilmacduagh. He was born in Kiltartan. His mother’s name was Rinaghs and his father’s name was Duagh. Before he was born it was prophesied that Colman was to be the greatest man of his race. King Colman was king of Connaught at that time. He was a cousin of Duagh. When he heard the prophecy he was jealous. He told his soldiers to tie a stone round Rinagh’s neck and throw her into the river. They did that, but she was not drowned. She was saved by a miracle. A few days after that Colman was born, but there was no one to baptize the child. One day as Rinagh was praying two monks came along. One was blind, the other was lame. She asked them to baptize the child, but they had no water. One of them caught the child’s hand and touched the ground. Water sprang up and they baptized the child. The monks asked Rinagh to give them the child. We hear no more about Colman until he is a priest. He went to the Arran Islands and he built a church there. After some time he went over to the Burren Mountains

There was once a man named Colman who lived in Kilvery. He used to go to town with his ass and cart and one night when he was coming home a dead man appeared to him. He appeared to him again on two other occasions. The third time Colman spoke and he asked him what he wanted and the dead man said “I want you to fight the devil for me.” The dead man told him what to do. He told him to make a ring and sprinkle holy-water in it. Colman went into the ring and the devil was throwing fire at him and he was throwing holy-water at the devil. The dead man advised Colman not to go out late at night and to be dry careful if he happened to be out. The man often went out at night but he never saw the dead man again after that.

There was once a man named Colman who lived in Kilvery. He used to go to town with his ass and cart and one night when he was coming home a dead man appeared to him (again). He appeared to him again on two other occasions. The third time Colman spoke and he asked him what he wanted and the dead man said. "I want you to fight the devil for me." The dead man told him what to do, He told him to make a ring and sprinkle holy-water in it. Colman went in to the ring and (the devil) he began (was) throwing holy-water at the devil. The dad man advised Colman not to go out late at night to be very careful if he happened to be out

The patron saint of Cloyne is St Colman. St Colman died in the year 606. He was buried in the old Cloyne graveyard and people used to make pilgrimages to the grave, and the protestant Bishop of Cloyne at the time, Bishop Crow, was annoyed at this and caused St Colman's bones to be dug up and thrown into the Sea at Ballyoroneen. Nobody knows where Bishop Crowe's grave is now. St Colman lived in a small house with his sister in Kilva the ruins of which still stand.There is also a stone up near the house with the print of St Colman's knees on it where he used to pray. The ruins of St Colman's first church still remains in the old graveyard and it is called the "Firehouse". Tradition has it but it isn't true that it was St Colman built the Round Tower and that one morning a woman came out looking at him and when she didn't say "God bless the work" he jumped from the top of the Tower and landed in Lurrig about a mile and a half away.
Martin J. Barry
Chapel St.
Cloyne

There are two holy wells in this district. One is situated in Kilva and the other in Titeskin. The one in Kilva is called after Saint Colman and the one in Titeskin after Our Lady.
People visit them at certain times of the year. They visit Saint Colman's on Saint Colman's day 24th November and for a week after. They make three "rounds" of the well, stopping at every mound and saying a decade of the Rosary. There is a story told of how this well was formed.
Saint Colman was supposed to have built the Round Tower in one night. In the morning an old woman passing by said, "That is fine work you have done but she never blessed the work. Saint Colman was angry and jumped from the top of the Round Tower, and landed in Kilva. Where he landed a well sprang up. This is how the well was supposed to

Cinealla Fadó bhí Naomh Colmán

ainm dó duac, bhí ocras ar duac agus aon lá amháin dubairt sé go ragfadh sé go dtí an righ dreathair do Colmán a bhí i ngairid doibh chun bhiadh d'fághail. Dubhairt Colmán go mbeadh biadh a dhatain acha. Cuaidh sé síos ar a glúnaibh ag guidh go trom le Dia. Ag an am céadna bhí an dinnéar réidh ag an righ agus bhí sé ag an bhpoinnte chun e d ite nuair d'eirigh na miosaí agus na Plataí agus nior stad siad ghur thainig siad go dtí an áith in a raibh an duach agus Colmán annsin bí biadh a dhatain ag Duach. Thainig sgannradh ar an righ agus do rith sé go dtí Colmán nuair a chonnaic duac an righ ag teach tháinig sgannradh air.

St. Colman was born in Corket, near Kiltartan. There is a blessed well in Kiltartan called St. Colmans well.
This well is so called because St. Colman blessed it and did pilgrimages around it. People are cured from many diseases at this well. There is also another well near Kilaspic called St. Colman's well. This well is so called, because St. Colman spent part of his life penance round it.
Guaire was the father of St. Colman. He was born under an ash-tree near Kiltartan. His mother was praying for somebody to come and baptise him.
Two men came, one blind and the other lame. They both prayed for water to baptise the child. Suddenly a fountain gushed forth. They baptised him and the two men washed themselves in the well and they were cured.

The name of our patron saint is Saint Colman.
Saint Colman came to this parish along with others saints and built a monastery in it and afterwards it was called the parish of Kilcolman.
When Saint Colman was in this parish he was going about from house to house preaching to the people and working miracles.
In one place of the parish there was a man sick and when Saint Colman heard he was sick he went to his house and cured him.
When Saint Colman was in this parish he had a lot of men employed in tilling the land and building houses for the poor people.

Very Rev. Canon Thomas Tobin was born in Rathdrum, Ballynoe in the year 1881. He received his early education in Ballynoe National School, and was taught by Mr John Ryall N.T.
When he had completed his National education, he succeeded in winning and entrance scholarship for St. Colman's College Fermoy, where he had free education for three years. He won three scholarships in St. Colman's College. He went from the College to Maynooth to be ordained as a priest for the diocese of Cloyne.
He commenced his mission as a priest in Glasgow. After one month of missionary life, he was re-called to St. Colman's College. He was appointed Professor in St. Colman's College in January 1908.
He was appointed President of St. Colman's in the year 1917, in succession to Very Rev. Canon Barrett who is now Parish Priest in Macroom. He was appointed Canon of the Cathedral Chapter in September 1928. He made many improvements both to the ground

a few paces away is a heap of stones marked by a small cross where it is supposed St Colman was born. The pilgrim does the circuit of this three times repeating one our Father, one Hail Mary and one Gloria at each round.
East of this is a large stone where St Colman's mother is supposed to have rested when she felt tired. The pilgrims go round this stone three times, repeating as before one our Father, one Hail Mary and one Gloria.
The rounds are finished by a visit to the well where prayers are said on the sport where St Colman was baptized. Usually a bottle of the well water is brought home and rubbed to sore eyes and through the prayers of St Colman these are very often cured.

St Colman is the Saint which is traditionally connected with this district. He was born in Kiltartan about the sixth century. His mother's name was Reenach and his father's name was Duagh. He was baptized in Kiltartan and there is a well there which is dedicated for his honour. The people pay visits to that well on St Colman's feast day and if a person slept overnight there that person would get cured of sore eyes.
St Colman used walk down to Glein every (every) night and sleep in the place which is known as "St Colman's bed". Once upon a time he went away to the Burren mountain to devote his time to the service of God. He took with him a little boy to serve mass for him. They lived on one meal a day and at that meal they only ate watercress and a little wheaten bread.
On Easter Sunday he said to the saint that he would like to go to Guaire's place

not find any. She was just about to turn away and go home when she met St. Patrick. She told him her story and he took her into a field where he knelt on a road. He then prayed to God and immediately water strand forth from the rock.
On St. Patrick;s day the people come to that well and preform around it on their knees and they also say the rosary there . about half a mile from Kinvara there is another well called St. Colman's well. It is beside an old hows called Foy's in Dungora. St Colman's well is visited on St Colman's day, and sometimes the people go there to pray there. There is another kind of well beside St. Colman's well and the clay out of it

person had this" At the same time, the dishes rose and flew out the window. Guaire got men and horses to follow in the direction. They had five miles to go, but it did not take them long. When the dishes arrived, Saint Colman and his disciple were greatly surprised. Coleman asked whence they came and an angel answered, "Your prayer and the goodness of Guarie". Saint Colman would not eat until they got further knowledge. Soon Guaire and his horsemen entered and when Guarie saw them he asked how long they had been there. Saint Coleman answered "seven years and forty days" Guaire ordered a church to be built and Saint Colman to take care of his spiritual life.
Then Guarie gave Colman a present of fifty cows newly calved.