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1. Legends of St. Patrick (continued)

   

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   handful of rocks and threw them out in the water. These stones are to be seen to this day and they form a kind of a bridge, and that bridge is called St. Patrick's Bridge. St. Pat. went out along the bridge until he came to the end of it. Then he took up a large boulder and threw it in the direction of the devil but ti fell a few yards short of him. The rock or boulder is seen to the present day and it is known as St. Patrick's Rock.
   When the devil was about five miles from Kilmore Quay the load was too heavy for him and he dropped a large portion of it. When he got about half a mile form where he dropped the first bit of land he got exhausted

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   History Edit

   Date

   1935

   Item type

   Lore

   Language

   Béarla

   Writing mode

   Handwritten

   Writing script

   Roman script

   Informant

   • Edward Gough