School: Ballynacally, Inis (roll number 2189)
- Location:
- Ballynacally, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Tomás Ó Cuinneagáin
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- (continued from previous page)there up to seventy years ago. It was called Saint Mary's Church.
There is the ruins of an old Church in Deer Island about a quarter of a mile from the village of Ballynacally. It was built by monks about the year sixteen hundred. There was a beautiful Holy Water font made of stone at its enterance. There is a story told about a man that was living in Kildysart and he was building a new house. He heard of the nice stones that were in this Church and he made up his mind that he would get some of them. He came one day and took all the nice stories including the Holy Water font. When he was about half way out to Ballynacally the boat began to sink, but when he found out that he returned to Deer Island and left some of them there. He brought some of them to Kildysart, and put some of them in his new house, but when it was built it fell. When he was building it again his wife made him bring back all the stones he had taken from the Church, and he did so. After a time he built the house again. The old Church is now a graveyard.
There is a graveyard in Cannon Island which was once a Church. It is situated about three miles from Kildysart. It was built about two hundred years before Cromwell came to Ireland, but when he came he got it bombed. There was a(continues on next page)
