School: Cluain Uí Chuinn (roll number 5844)
- Location:
- Cluain Uí Choinn, Co. Ros Comáin
- Teacher: Mícheál Mac Floinn
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“A Protestant family gave a dinner and invited a wandering friar to come.”
This story belongs to Cloghan, [?].
A Protestant family gave a dinner and invited a wandering friar to come. Soup was served and the maid whispered the friar in Irish not to drink the soup as it was poisoned. She also said "[?]".
He made an excuse and left the table but he had only gone 3/4 of a mile when they overtook him. They beheaded him on the roadway. There was a slope in the land, and his body rolled some distance one way and the head the other. A stone slab marks the spot where the priest was buried and a spring well, the spot where the head rested.
There is a cross cut on the stone over the grave and every year it gets deeper. A stone rests beside the well with as many marks on it as there were cuts on the priest's head.