School: Naomh Seosamh, Baile an Ruadháin (roll number 15829)
- Location:
- Ballinrooaun, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Mrs Nora Lally
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0077, Page 293
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- St. Francis being the leader of the Franciscan Brothers set his first foundation at Mount Bellew in 1818. In the beginning of the nineteenth century we can trace but one, a little convent at Dalkey dedicated to St. John.
In 1818 two Franciscan Brothers from St. John's came to Mount Bellew at the invitation of Mr. Christopher Dillon Bellew. There names were Brother Bonaventure Lee and Brother Michael Dillon and St. Francis himself as he looked down and saw them building their little huts on a dry turf bank, which had to serve them for shelter until their monastery was built years later. Indeed as one reads the story of the foundation at Mount Bellew, one is constantly(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Teresa Burke
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballinrooaun, Co. Galway
- Informant
- James Owens
- Relation
- Grandparent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 83
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Ballagh, Co. Galway
