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Round Towers of Ireland - who built them and what were they for?
Round towers were designed primarily as bell-towers and were attached to some of the most prestigious churches in Ireland ...
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Saint Fursey of Ireland
His parents came from Munster. The infant Fursey was baptized by St. Brendan the Navigator, founder of Clonfert Monastery. When Fursey grew up he became a monk at Clonfert in Galway in Ireland, under ...
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The Bangor Bell
The bell was reputedly found by gravediggers at Bangor Abbey around 1780, and it is speculated that it had been hidden at the time of the Viking attacks on Irish monasteries. It was in private ...
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Saint Maelruain, Abbot of Tallaght in Ireland
St. Maelruain (also spelled Maolruain) is venerated as the founder and first abbot of Tallaght Monastery in present-day County Dublin in Ireland, as well as the compiler of the martyrology of the same ...
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The Bangor Bell
The bell was reputedly found by gravediggers at Bangor Abbey around 1780, and it is speculated that it had been hidden at the time of the Viking attacks on Irish monasteries. It was in private ...