School: Clonmacnoise
- Location:
- Clonmacnoise, Co. Offaly
- Teacher: P. Ó Maolmhuaidh
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- Once upon a time there was a man in this part of the country. He had twenty-five children and as the times were bad he was not able to rear them. So he put them into a “Kish” and put the Kish on a cart. He brought them down to the Shannon near Clonmacnois to Drown them. Just as he was taking the kish off the cart St Ciaran came along and asked what he had there. He said he had little pigs to drown. St Ciaran took the cover off the kish and saw the children inside. So he took the children from the man and gave one to each of twenty-five houses across the Shannon. There they(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Brendan Molloy
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Clonmacnoise, Co. Offaly
- Informant
- Ann Kilmartin
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 90
- Address
- Creevagh, Co. Offaly