School: Fearth Mór (Brooklawn) (roll number 15508)
- Location:
- Fartamore, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Treasa, Bean Mhic Aonghusa
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0040, Page 0244
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- In the penal times when the priests had no place to read mass, there was a garden near Thomas Ryan's house in Kilgevrin. In that garden there was a palm tree and the priests read mass under the tree for the people of the village several times.
The people from England came to Thomas Ryan and said that they would give him any sum of money he would sell the tree and Thomas Ryan said he would'nt because the priest that read mass under the palm tree blessed it.
Other men came from Scotland and asked him would he dig up the tree and they would give him hundreds if he would rail it to Scotland, but Thomas Ryan said he would not.
- Collector
- Brigidh Ní Mhangháin
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- James Mangan
- Gender
- Male
