School: Clonmacnoise
- Location:
- Clonmacnoise, Co. Offaly
- Teacher: P. Ó Maolmhuaidh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0811, Page 201
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- (continued from previous page)thereby telling that it represented a fight to a finish between the Old Irish, and the Melisians in pre-Christian times, 1300 B.C. The cross-men were those charging and the loop-men those retreating. He said there are many similar stones in Spain. During the Summer months many visitors come to see this stone and go away with the impression on their minds that it is very valuable and the oldest stone in Ireland. The people in the district should go see it and learn the history of it and be able to tell visitors about it. They should feel glad that their own district posseses the oldest stone in Ireland. A stone that before Our Lord founded his Apostolic Church lay there enjoying the glorious sunshine in Summer and the rain leaving it as pure(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Ciaran P. Coughlan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Clonascra, Co. Offaly
- Informant
- Bridget Coughlan
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 57
- Address
- Clonascra, Co. Offaly
