School: Clochar na Trócaire, Maghcromtha (roll number 10047)
- Location:
- Macroom, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Na Siúracha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0342, Page 120
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- (continued from previous page)"little field of the plague" and it is so called because of a dreadful pestilence that raged in the neighborhood in the time of our saint. She made the Sign of the Cross over the stricken district, with the result that the plague disappeared and never again visited it, no matter how fiercely it might be raging elsewhere. Kilgobnait, or the cell of Gobnait" is the name of more than one place in Ireland. There is a Kilgobnait in the County Waterford, with a well dedicated to the saint, which was once a famous place of pilgrimage, both on her feast and on Whit Monday. A "Fair of St. Gobnait" is held there still every eleventh of February as also at Kilgobnet, in the County Limerick.
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Macroom
- Few, if any of our minor Irish saints are held in such popular veneration as St Gobnait, patroness of Ballyvourney whose festival continues to be honoured with more than ordinary devotion in different parts of Munster on February 11. There are few, even among our greater saints around whose memory there clings such a wealth of living local traditions, handed down from age to age for a(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Cautie Murphy
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Glasheen, Co. Cork
