School: Crecora, Tobar Pádraig (roll number 9668)
- Location:
- Crecora, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Máire, Bean Uí Ainnín
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- When St. Patrick entered the territory of Hy Fidgente he sent a deacon of his household to Lommon, the chief of the district, to prepare a banquet for him.
No sooner had Uantan gone than a train of jugglers arrived and demanded hospitality from St. Patrick. St. Patrick not being able to fulfil their wants, directed them to Lommon, but Lommon refused saying "it is not meet that jugglers should grace the first of our banquets".
Just then St. Patrick saw a little boy named Nessan and his mother, bearing a cooked wether and three curd cheeses. St. Patrick called him and asked him for the ram. This, he willingly gave and the jugglers were just partaking of it when the ground opened up and swallowed them. The cheeses were turned into stones which can still be(continues on next page)- Collector
- Seán Ó Finn
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Lemonfield, Co. Limerick
- Informant
- Seán Ó Finn
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Lemonfield, Co. Limerick