School: Drumloughan (Dromlachan) (roll number 15665)

Location:
Sunnagh More, Co. Leitrim
Teacher:
Peadar Mac Giolla Choinnigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0221, Page 143

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    and some people still pay visits to it. His feast day is on December 20th. His sister Fionmaith was the mother of the famous St Berech a Bary who was born in Gorth-na-Luachra, Cloone.
    (3) Old John Clancy told me that he heard that before the time of St Patrick there came into this area a very wild and warlike people who hunted St Patrick when he came to preach among them, and that St Patrick said that they would yet be converted by one of their own, who would be famous throughout the land. This old tradition would fit in fairly well with the authentic historical account of the coming of Con. Maicne into Maigh Réin.
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    Topics
    1. time
      1. historical periods by name (~25)
        1. the great famine (~4,013)
    2. events
      1. events (by time of year) (~11,476)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    P. Mac Giolla Choinnigh
    Gender
    Male
    Informant
    John Clancy
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Cloone, Co. Leitrim