School: Clochar na Trócaire (roll number 13381)

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1. Tobar Beannaithe (continued)

   

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   I heard about Cloc Ma Coda. There was once a monk and he lived in the Abbey in Innisfallen. One day he saw a little robin which he followed. The robin perched on the tree that is now over the well. The monk fell asleep on the rock under the tree and he slept for a hundred years. When he woke he went back to the Abbey he did not know how long he had slept. Everything seemed changed. He did not know the monk who opened the door. The monk asked him his name and he told him. Then the monk remembered the story he had heard about the other monk who was lost a hundred years before. He believed that this monk was the long lost monk. He lived with the young monks and after a while he died.
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      1. events (by time of year) (~11,476)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Peig Ní Bhruchtáin

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Killarney, Co. Kerry

   Informant

   Bean Uí Bhruchtáin

   Gender

   Female