School: Baile an Doirín (C) (roll number 7552)
- Location:
- Baile an Doirín, Co. na Gaillimhe
- Teacher: Treasa Bean Uí Bheirn
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- Our local saint is called St. Surney, he lived in the village of Drumacoo about a mile from the church of Ballindereen. Once she sent her servant girl into Island Eddie for a burning coal because her fire was out. A certain person there put the coal into the little girl's apron and it burned her to ashes. When St. Surney heard this she said nobody would ever come out from Island Eddie to Aran with a dry foot. In the little cell where St. Surney. In the little cell where St. Surney lived there is the coal to be seen to the present day. There is a well called St. Surneys in a field near the graveyard(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Bridget Fordham
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Daniel Fordham
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 80
- Address
- Cill Cholgáin, Co. na Gaillimhe