Monasticon Hibernicum: Or, A History of the Abbeys, Priories, and Other Religious Houses in Ireland; Interspersed with Memoirs of Their Several Founders and Benefactors, and of Their Abbots and Other Superiors, to the Time of Their Final Suppression, Volume 2W. B. Kelly, 1876 |
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abbess abbey abbot acres of arable acres of land advowson alias ancient annual value arable land Aran archbishop of Dublin Ardfert barony belonging Bishop Bishop of Clogher Brendan burgage called canons castle chapel Chief Remembrancer church of St Clogher Colman cottages county of Dublin Devenish Died the abbot diocese Edward Enda erected feast of St feet finds Fitz founded Four Masters Franciscan friars Galway garden granted Harris's Collect held honoured hospital Inquisition interred Ireland Irish Irish money island James John Kilkenny Kilmainham King Henry VIII King of Leinster King's Knights Knockmoy Leinster Lisgool Lord Lough Lough Erne manor marcs Martyrology meadow Meath messuage monastery Nicholas nunnery Ossory parcel parish church parliament Patrick possessions Queen Elizabeth rectory reprises Richard river Liffey Robert ruins saint seized shillings stone Thomas tithes town townland Tuam Virgin Walter William ye annual rent ye appurtenances ye rectory ye tenure yearly value
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Page 165 - I found the aged of strict morals, The historians recording truth ; Each good, each benefit that I have sung, In Ireland I have seen.
Page 185 - They have noe fuell but cow-dung dryed with the sun, unless they bring turf in from the western continent. They have Cloghans, a kind of building of stones layd one upon another, which are brought to a roof without any manner of mortar to cement them, some of which cabins will hold forty men on their floor ; so antient that nobody knows how long ago any of them was made. Scarcity of wood and store of fit stones, without peradventure found out the first invention.
Page 164 - I found in Armagh the splendid, Meekness, wisdom, circumspection, Fasting, in obedience to the Son of God, Noble prosperous sages. " I found in each great church, Whether internal, on shore or island, Learning, wisdom, devotion to God, Holy welcome and protection. " I found the lay monks Of alms the active advocates, And, in proper order with them, The Scriptures without corruption.
Page 336 - After the occupation of the city by Cromwell's soldiers, some of them, who were particularly remarkable for their impiety, assembled in the market-place, armed with their muskets, and directed many...
Page 160 - Lough Erne, and coadjutor of the Bishop of Clogher for fifteen years before his death, the repertory of the wisdom and science of his own country, fruitful branch of the canon, and a fountain of charity and mercy to the poor and the indigent of the Lord — he it was who had collected together many historical books, from which he had compiled the historical book of Baile-Mic-Manus for his own use — died of galar breac [the smallpox] on the tenth of the Calends of April, which fell on a Friday,...
Page 239 - Innisf alien being ever esteemed a paradise and a secure sanctuary, the treasure and the most valuable effects of the whole country were deposited in the hands of the clergy; notwithstanding which, we find the abbey was plundered in this year by Maolduin, son of Daniel O'Donoghue.
Page 6 - Patrick's, was composed in 1300 on the following terms : "that the Archbishop of Dublin should in future be consecrated and enthroned in the Priory of the Holy Trinity ; that each church should be styled Cathedral and Metropolitan ; that the Convent of the Holy Trinity, as being the greater, the mother, and the elder church, should have the precedence in all rights and concerns of the Church ; that the cross, mitre, and ring of every Archbishop, in whatever place he died, should be deposited in the...
Page 182 - A ran islanders, of their primitive simplicity, their ingenuous manners, and their singular hospitality, that I could not help doubting the truth of a picture so pleasing and romantic, and felt anxious to ascertain, by personal observation, how far it might be real.
Page 188 - But there yet survives the voice of one of those who lived with him in Aran, and in the ideal of an abbot which St. Carthage sets before us we undoubtedly find reproduced the traits which distinguished the Abbot of Aranmore, from whom St. Carthage first learned to serve God in the religious life. St. Enda was his first model of the " patience, humility, prayer, fast, and cheerful abstinence ; of the steadiness, modesty, calmness that are due from a leader of religious men, whose office it is to teach...
Page 189 - Clonmacuoise describes it, the home of a multitude of holy men, and the sanctuary where repose the relics of countless saints, whose names are known only to the Almighty God. ' Great indeed is that island...