School: Clochar na Trócaire, Cill na Mullach (roll number 11855)
- Location:
- Buttevant, Co. Cork
- Teacher: An tSiúr Bríd
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0369, Page 356
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- (continued from previous page)When the last load of bones had been removed to the crypt of Killnamullagh Abbey church, Dame Elspeth spoke to her husband. - "We have got a sign, Isaac. Finding a consecrated resting-place for the bones of the Friars is not enough!" "Far better if you and I go back to the Faith of those who came before us. It is the only way out
Isaac Bluett shook his head. With rare eloquence the Dame argued and entreated passionately. Bluett hesitated and so was lost. Next evening at sundown when the maids went out to the milking, Dame Elspeth was not there to supervise and direct. Night fell and there was no trace of her. Next day her husband saddled his sorrel gelding and rode into Moyallow Nobody in Moyallow had seen the missing Dame.
In a Flemish convent a lay sister, reputed to be of English birth, led a life of sanctity and hard work. Among the poor worldly possessions which she brought into the cloister were two cut cooked potatoes immune from decay. The true story was only known to their owner and the Mother Abbess.
- Collector
- Sister M. Brigid
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mr D. M. Lenihan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 70
