School: Tír-Dhá-Ghlas (Terryglass)

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   a safe roadway was made; it was then blessed and the monks said that no one would meet with accident on that road. At the present day it is called the Toher [?] or monk's road, and though unprotected by hedge or dyke no one meets with any accident on it.

   

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   d. After the burning of the monastery the monks finally abandoned Terryglass. They stole away quietly from the place, but on their journey they met a woman who spoke about what she had seen. The monks are supposed to have cursed her.

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   Topics

   1. earraí
      1. struchtúir de dhéantús an duine
         1. séadchomharthaí (~6,794)

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3. Sites of Historic Interest, Mass Rocks, Battlefields

   

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   e.
   1. Brigid Parkinson. 2. Slevoyre. 3. About 64. 4. Father. 5. Slevoyre. 6. From Grandfather 7. About 50. 8. About 70. 9. Slevoyre. 10. 1934.
   A tunnel connected the monastery with a mound called Greenane, situated about sixty yards distant and partly to the north-west of the monastery. In the tunnel was a cell into which the monks were accustomed to go at stated times in the year. Three days and three nights were spent in prayer here without food or sleep.

   

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   “About forty years ago as workmen were engaged in digging operations in the Greenane near St.Columba's well human bones were dug up.”

   

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   (This even happened in the lifetime of the above narrator).
   About forty years ago as workmen were engaged in digging operations in the Greenane near St.Columba's

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