School: Clochar na Toirbhirte, Mainistir Fhearmuighe (roll number 2258)
- Location:
- Fermoy, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Na Mná Rialta
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0378, Page 006
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- (continued from previous page)to the story, people say that the monks buried the Chalices and other Sacred vessels under the passage before they were drowned.
A number of years after this had happened a large house was built on the site of the old Abbey. The inhabitants of this house heard strange and terrifying noises and foot-steps, sometimes cups were sent flying out of their hands by unseen forces.
Later on McCurtain Street (or King Street as it was formerly called was built.)
The house in which I live is directly over the above mentioned passage which connects the town with the spot on which the Abbey stood, part of the passage has been filled in.
On day my father and uncle went down the passage looking for the gold,(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary Jackson
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Fermoy, Co. Cork
