School: Grange (roll number 3759)
- Location:
- Grange, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Tomás de Búrca
![The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0155, Page 248](https://doras.gaois.ie/cbes/CBES_0155%2FCBES_0155_248.jpg?width=1600&quality=85)
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0155, Page 248
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Grange
- XML Page 248
- XML “St Patrick and the Snakes”
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- (continued from previous page)but when he came to the lake he could find no boat to take him to the island, so he swam across to it.When the serpent saw St Patrick coming he followed him, but St Patrick took out a knife which he carried and killed the serpent with it.The blood of the serpent flowed out over the water in the lake and made it red. Afterwards the people called the lake Loch Dearg.
- Collector
- Kathleen Kilfeather
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Grange, Co. Sligo
- Informant
- Mrs E. O Connor
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 75
- Address
- Grange, Co. Sligo