School: Tamhnach tSeiscinn (roll number 12778)
- Location:
- Tamhnaigh an tSeascainn, Co. Ros Comáin
- Teacher: Aibhistín Ó Tárpaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0234, Page 158
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- (continued from previous page)stationed at Boyle barracks decided to try his skull with the rod with the result that he caught this famous trout. He brought the fish to the barracks and gave it to the cook to prepare for supper. The cook put the gridiron on the fire and put the fish on the grid-iron.
When the fish was on the fire for about one minute it gave one jump through the cook house window made its way to Boyle River and swam back to its old haunts. There are people to this day who say they saw the fish and they refer to him as the trout with the mark of grid-iron bars on its back. But during recent years this fish has disappeared. Some people say that he can be seen in his old haunts on every St Patrick's Day.
- Another reason a pilgrimage used to be made to St Patrick's well was that whoever suffered from knee ailments and who knelt in the impression made by St Patrick's knees would be cured of the already mentioned ailments.
