School: An Rinnín, Leacht Uí Chonchobhair (roll number 9425)
- Location:
- Rinneen, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Pádhraic Ó Cionaoith
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0621, Page 202
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- (continued from previous page)on in their fright, trying to escape. The horses in their mad stampede were killed and cars broken, and drowned in the mountain. Years after pieces of the gigs were found in the bogs by people who were cutting turf. The three young men escaped unnoticed in the confusion, and to this day it is a mystery to the Protestants, what was the meaning of the visitation, as they believed it was from some Supernatural Power.
So to this day the Cromwellian descendants never came there to practise their Services. So the church fell into decay, and the ruins are to be seen in the centre of the graveyard, where the famous well of St. Joseph is, noted for its remarkable healing power of afflicted sinners.
- Informant
- John O' Connor
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballyvaskin South, Co. Clare
