School: Tír-Dhá-Ghlas (Terryglass)
- Location:
- Terryglass, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Seán Ó Gliasáin
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- (continued from previous page)a safe roadway was made; it was then blessed and the monks said that no one would meet with accident on that road. At the present day it is called the Toher [?] or monk's road, and though unprotected by hedge or dyke no one meets with any accident on it.
- d. After the burning of the monastery the monks finally abandoned Terryglass. They stole away quietly from the place, but on their journey they met a woman who spoke about what she had seen. The monks are supposed to have cursed her.
- e.
1. Brigid Parkinson. 2. Slevoyre. 3. About 64. 4. Father. 5. Slevoyre. 6. From Grandfather 7. About 50. 8. About 70. 9. Slevoyre. 10. 1934.
A tunnel connected the monastery with a mound called Greenane, situated about sixty yards distant and partly to the north-west of the monastery. In the tunnel was a cell into which the monks were accustomed to go at stated times in the year. Three days and three nights were spent in prayer here without food or sleep.- Informant
- Brigid Parkinson
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- c. 64
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Slevoir, Co. Tipperary
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“About forty years ago as workmen were engaged in digging operations in the Greenane near St.Columba's well human bones were dug up.”
(This even happened in the lifetime of the above narrator).
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