School: Burrane, Inis (roll number 13738)
- Location:
- Burrane Upper, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Mícheál Ó Tuama
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- (continued from previous page)also the common belief that this huge Monster could cast stones over a cwt weight from the Island to the town of Kilrush - two miles distant. Senan quickly banished this Monster to Lough Doo (Doolough) near Mount-Callan. There is a valley named Gleann-na-phista near the present town of Kilrush associated with this Monster's exit from Scattery Island. Senan's life in Scattery was one of rigid mortification, prayer and teaching and the fame of his piety and learning soon attracted Scholars from all parts of the Country and even from the Continent to be taught by St Senan and his associates so that Scattery earned the reputation of being a famous seat of religion and learning. No woman was allowed by the Saint to live or even land on the island while he lived. A kinswoman of his own who lived in Holy Island (Inis Caltra) in Lough Derg made a set of vestments for him and when she had them finished she desired to present them to him in person and asked his permission to do so. He refused and told her to put the vestments into a box and float them down the River Shannon. This she did and the Box with its precious contents duly landed in Scattery Island and Ste Senan took possession of them. Tradition also tells us that when this saintly kinswoman of the Saint (her name was St Cannera) felt her end approaching she came to Scattery Island to receive the last Sacraments from St Senan but he knowing (by devine power) of her approach and intention met her before she landed.(continues on next page)
