School: Mungraid (B.) Luimneach (roll number 14409)
- Location:
- Mungret, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Mrs B. Mulroy
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0528, Page 058
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- (continued from previous page)of Cashel would put to do them. So they made up a plan to defeat them. On the morning of the contest many of the Mungret men disguised as washerwomen stationed themselves at a stream that flowed through the monastery grounds right in the path by which the other scholars had to pass. The Cashel scholars when they came spoke to the washerwomen and they answered them in Latin and Greek. The knowledge of languages the washerwomen had frightened away the Cashel competitors and left the day to the Mungret Scholars. The stream is still pointed out in the dip which occurs in the Limerick road between Hogan's Cross Ballinacurra and the hill from which the College is seen.
- Informant
- Michael Hayes
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 92
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Mungret, Co. Limerick
