School: Moydow, Longphort (roll number 11971)
- Location:
- Moydow, Co. Longford
- Teacher: Seán Mac Coiligh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0754, Page 197
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- A well known Irish St who spent some time in this locality is St Brighid.
There are a great many stories told about her, but one of the most important is as follows -
When she was a young Nun, she spent some of her time in Ardagh, and was about to establish a convent there; but owing to a great dispute, she had with some of the people there, she did not attempt to establish it.
One day a man said that she was not a holy or pious woman, but that she was wicked so in order to prove to him that she was chaste she carried a burning coal of fire on her bosom from Ardagh to the Pound of Killen without being burned.
Soon after she left Ardagh and travelled to Kildare where she founded her convent.
Another old story told about St Brighid is about a great well which she found in Ardagh in Mr O'Reilly's field.
One day she was out travelling and she saw a well which no other person ever saw, She blessed it and ever since there is a great cure in it. People go to visit it and hang white cloths on a bush beside it, and then they get cured.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Kathleen Mac Cormack
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 14
- Address
- Bawn, Co. Longford
- Informant
- John Mac Cormack
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Bawn, Co. Longford
