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 409
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- (continued from previous page)in which the friends and disciples of Benignus taught, and in which his memory must have been specially revered. His education finished, he was ordained priest, and being ambitious, like so many others of his contemporaries, of founding a monastery, he did so at Cluainfois (now Cloonfush). Situated on the Clare river, a little to the north of the present town of Tuam, and in rich pasture land, the monastery soon acquired fame and attracted pupils though not to the same extent as Aran or Clonmacnoise. St. Brendan, who visited so many places in Connaught, was there, and was the close friend of St. Jarlath, and so also was St. Colman of Cloyne.
It was St. Brendan who predicted that St. Jarlath would(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
