Scoil: St Brigid's Convent, Mountrath (uimhir rolla 13343)

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1. The Knights of the Round Table of Ossory

   

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   As a child of nine Mr. McDermott, Woodbrook, Mountrath, witnessed the following argument between two men at his father's fireside. One man named Fitzpatrick boasted that he was descended from "The Knights of the Round Table of Ossory". The other man in order to humble the pride of Fitzpatrick said "Do you know the origin of "The Knights of the Round Table of Ossory"? Thereupon he told the following story.
   When Brian Boru's men were marching homewards to Munster after the battle of Clontarf, they passed throught the "Plain of Ossory". They found themselves barred at Gortnaclea Castle by a hostile chief, Mac Gilla Patrick, Lord of Ossory, and had to make a circuitous route home by Cashel.

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   Tras-scríofa ag duine dár meitheal tras-scríbhneoirí deonacha.

   Stair Athraigh

   Teanga

   Béarla

   Bailitheoir

   Maura Patterson

   Inscne

   Baineann

   Seoladh

   Maighean Rátha, Co. Laoise

   Faisnéiseoir

   Mr William Mac Dermott

   Inscne

   Fireann

   Seoladh

   Sruthán na Coille, Co. Laoise