School: Druim na hAdhairce (roll number 14379)
- Location:
- Droim na hAdhairce Thoir, Co. Dhún na nGall
- Teacher: Máire, Bean Mhic Robhartaigh
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1037, Page 65
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Druim na hAdhairce
- XML Page 65
- XML “Our Patron Saint”
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- A long, long time ago there lived a King in Munster. St. Patrick baptised him. The King had a son named Nail. He was very holy. One night an angel came to him in his dreams. This angel told Nail to go to Colmcille and ask land on which to build a church. Nail went up to Colmcille who was in Gleneanny at that time. Colmcille gave Nail the land at the mouth of the Eany river. That is why it is called Inver river. That is why it is called Inver Naile. That day the two Saints had no food. They blessed the sea and when the tide came in the sea was covered with fish. They blessed the sand and it turned into flour. Then they had plenty of food. They baked cakes. A little bit from Inver there is a well from Tobar Naile.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Teresa Cunnaghan
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 13
- Address
- Tamhnach an tSalainn, Co. Dhún na nGall
