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School: Naomh Muire (B), Mionloch (roll number 15444)

Location:
Menlough, Co. Galway
Teacher:
Pádraig Ó Díscín
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0077, Page 003

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  1. The Story of the Monks

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    There is a strange custom in the this parish that is not in any other parish. Nobody is buried in the parish on Monday. There was a Monks College in Menlough and another in Cloonkeen. The two Monks had a row. The man from Menlough wished that there would be a dead body in the parish every Monday. The man from Cloonkeen wished that it would be a starling that would be dead. It is said that there is a dead starling found in the graveyard every Monday morning. The people were afraid that they would have to bury one every week.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. social activities (~7)
        1. rites of passage (~573)
          1. death (~1,076)
    Language
    English
    Informant
    Thomas Naughton
    Gender
    Male