School: Balrath (roll number 9770)

Location:
Balrath, Co. Westmeath
Teacher:
Bean Uí Oirghiall
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0738, Page 090

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0738, Page 090

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  2. My father Thomas Nugent gave me this account of St Loman's. St Loman's was the patron Saint of the parish of Portloman and was a nephew of St Patrick. He landed on the shore of Lough Owel at Portloman and built a church where the grave yard now lies and an oratory on Church Island in Lough Owel for praying and doing penance. Tradition tells us at the time St Loman lived in Portloman there was a dreaded disease in Ireland and the people came to him to get cured. He ploughed a scrape around the parish of Portloman and
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