School: Scattery Island
- Location:
- Scattery Island, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Nóra Ní Cholgáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0630, Page 219
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- At one time, probably in the course of the peregrinations incidental to tribal life that time, St. Senan accompanied his mother and family to a certain village where they wished to remain. They were, however, driven out by the inhabitants with injuries and insults at which the mother was greatly perturbed. The Saint, to console her, said that God was the avenger of all wrongs done to his servants. Not long afterwards, a plague ravaged the village, neither inhabitants nor cattle surviving, and even the very village had been swallowed up, presumably by the waves.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Nóra Ní Cholgáin
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Scattery Island, Co. Clare