School: Baile an Gharrdha (B.) (roll number 13210)
- Location:
- Ballingarry, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Tomás Lotrail
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- (continued from previous page)before Emancipation by Rev. Fr. Prendergast. The present school was built by late James Canon Cantwell in 1887.The patron saint of Crohane was St Shinagh. There is a holy well there called Shinagh's well. No stations are performed there now.
- I have heard it related by people - several people that if yo caught an eel, made a cross on the ground with a stick or any blunt instrument, and place the eel on it, there it will remain unable to crawl until again released.Try it out as I had no opportunity of doing so myself.