School: Cill Chláráin, An Fhiacail
- Location:
- Kilclaran, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Ss. Ó Muineóg
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0592, Page 461
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- He was a Sligo man who came to Clare over one hundred years ago. He prophesied that the following things would happen?
1) That news would go on the tops of sticks2) That carriages would run without horses
3) The whole world would be filled with white ribbons. (Roads)
4) That there would be less fish in the rivers towards the end of the world than there was in his time
5) That there would be a great trouble in Ireland between the North and South over some great political issue
6) That the whole world would collect into Dublin before the fight between the North and South.
7) There would be a terrible civil war in Spain before the trouble in Ireland
8) The North and South would fight in the year ending with a O, and while they would be fighting a stocking of meal would last you
