School: Naomh Seosamh, Baile an Ruadháin (roll number 15829)
- Location:
- Ballinrooaun, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Mrs Nora Lally
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- More intimately connected with the history of the Archdiocese of Tuam than St. Brendan, though not so famous a man, was St. Jarlath. He came of a good family, his father being Loga, chief of the Conmaicne of Dunmore. He received his early education at the school of Kilbannon, and is said to have been the pupil of Benignus himself. But he probably belonged to a later period, for Benignus died long before the close of the fifth century, even before St. Patrick while St. Jarlath is counted among the second order of Irish saints the numbers of which flourished from 550 to 600. He might however, be said to have been a pupil of Benignus, in the sense of being brought up in school of Benignus, a school(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Teresa Burke
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballinrooaun, Co. Galway
- Informant
- Timothy Burke
- Relation
- Grandparent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 70
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Cuddoo East, Co. Galway