School: Doire Iubhair (roll number 7194)
- Location:
- Doire Úbair Thiar, Co. na Gaillimhe
- Teacher: Séan Mac Diarmuda
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- (continued from previous page)clear out. When the man returned the stranger had the wood cut down. The man rode back and told the Lord. The Lord ordered his men to get up on their horses and follow him to the Island.
They rode through Woodford and Gurteeny and when they reached Mountshannon in sight of the Island the men stuck to the saddles and the horses stuck to the road. The Lord told the man to go into the stranger and tell him that he would make him a present of the Island if he released them out of the state they were in. The stranger built seven churches on the island and afterwards known to be a saint. The ruins of the seven churches are still and the Island is now called "Holy Island".
- Collector
- Mary Fahy
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Martain Fahy
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 51
- Address
- Damhros, Co. na Gaillimhe
