School: Clonmacnoise
- Location:
- Clonmacnoise, Co. Offaly
- Teacher: P. Ó Maolmhuaidh
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- (continued from previous page)history of Clonmacnois.
- The monks had round towers for defensive purposes. In Clonmacnois are two round towers - St Finian's and O Rourke's towers.
When the monks saw the enemy coming it is said that they used to boil big pots of water and bring the pots into the towers. The monks had a wooden floor at the top of the tower and used to go up a ladder to the floor. Then they would throw down the(continues on next page)- Collector
- James Mac Evoy
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Patrick Flannery
- Relation
- Grandparent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 80
- Address
- Clonmacnoise, Co. Offaly