Abstract: Story collected by Cristiná Nic an t Saoi, a student at Ughtyneill school (Ughtyneill, Co. Meath) from informant John Rogers.
Original reference: 0705/3/6
School Ughtyneill [Vol. 0705, Chapter 0003]
County The Schools' Manuscript Collection : County Meath Schools
transcribed at 
Garabát Moybologue [duchas:4972948]
Garabat Moybologue One Sunday morning after St Patrick had celebrated Mass in the Church, he was returning home with the Congeration. There was among the crown a woman who had eaten her breakfast and afterwards received Holy Communion, therefore committing sacrilege. She was coming home on horseback behind a man when she suddenly started to eat the horse. St Patrick knelt down on a large stone on the brow of the road which still bears the marks of his knee. He shot the witch and cutting the body in three parts with his staff, he ordered on of them to be buried in the brow of the road, the 2nd he sent flying through the air, and the third he sent to Fintenagh Lake. He prophesied that when 99 generations of the Garrigans (for that was the witches sir named) should have passed over the spot where she was buried, that she would rise again and eat before her. In order that that time
Garabát Moybologue [duchas:4972949]
should never come, the Public changed the road at that turn and made it straight in order to prevent people passing over the unlucky spot. That is the story of Garabat Moybologue. Cristina Nic an tSaoi Baile Nic Cacain Mag. N. Calca Told by John Rogers Ballymacane Moynalty
Original reference: 0705/3/6
Garabát Moybologue
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