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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0797, Page 189

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    If you ever visit Glendalough you will probably be shown a quaint old rock which the peasants call the "deerstone" and which is supposed to date back to the time of St. Kevin.
    It appears that a certain man died leaving after him a wife and a young baby and St. Kevin seeing that they had no support commanded a deer that lived on the nearby mountain of Derrybawn to come down and shed its milk into a circular hole in the rock to feed the baby while the mark of the Saint's hand and of the place he sat are beside it. Some say that the hole is never empty.

    Patrick Rochford
    Carmelite Monastery
    Kilmacud
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. objects
      1. man-made structures
        1. historical and commemorative structures (~6,794)
    2. events
      1. events (by time of year) (~11,476)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Patrick Rochford
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Carmelite Monastery, Co. Dublin