tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35036895220963767392024-03-13T18:01:16.174+00:00The Catholic Heritage Association of IrelandCatholic Action for the Traditional Latin LiturgyCatholic Heritage Associationhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16931529213337535429noreply@blogger.comBlogger837125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3503689522096376739.post-39397204798288684322019-03-08T13:23:00.000+00:002019-03-08T13:23:00.223+00:00Old Leighlin (Walsh)The following is from Fr. Thomas Walsh's <em>History of the Irish Hierarchy</em>, published in New York in 1854, chapter xxxvii, at p. 368:<br />
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Old Leighlin Saint Gobhan founded this abbey for canons of St Augustine in the year 616 In the year 632 St Gobhan surrendered his abbey to St Laserian the son of Cairel and Blitha Laserian is said to have had fifteen hundred monks under his jurisdiction Laserian was made bishop of Leighlin He died in the year 638 and on the 18th of April AD 639 Delasse MacWinge the abbot died AD 725 Saint Manchen bishop of Leighlin died AD 767 Ernagh MacEhyn the abbot died AD 863 Manchen the abbot died AD 876 Dungall the abbot died In the year 916 Leighlin was plundered Saint Stephen's priory founded by Burchard a Norwegian captain about the year 1060 The founder was buried in the choir of the cathedral Felix was prior Philip was prior after him in the year 1304 In the following year one John was prior This priory was dissolved in the year 1432 by authority of Pope Eugene rV and the lands belonging to it were annexed to the deanery of Leighlin Convenorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17939527929709019039noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3503689522096376739.post-27216368777347989472019-03-04T13:22:00.006+00:002019-03-04T13:22:00.410+00:00Stradbally (Walsh)The following is from Fr. Thomas Walsh's <em>History of the Irish Hierarchy</em>, published in New York in 1854, chapter lviii, at p. 620:<br />
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Stradbally gives name to the barony In the twelfth century The O Morra founded this monastery for conventual Franciscans August 18th 1582 Queen Elizabeth was seized of this friary and all its appurtenances which consisted of besides other property three hundred and forty five acres of land in different townlands all of which were granted to Francis Cosby and his heirs at the annual rent of 17 6s 3d Irish under an obligation of finding yearly nine English horsemen to defend and maintain British supremacy In 1609 a new lease was made to Richard son of Alexander CosbyConvenorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17939527929709019039noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3503689522096376739.post-19524489388664194942018-12-10T20:00:00.000+00:002018-12-10T20:00:00.171+00:00St. Peter & Paul's<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Bfl5nyuIa_4/TgzKhCKDP6I/AAAAAAAABbc/c4Nx8cTHDD4/s1600/Cork%2BSanctuary%2BCrucifix.JPG"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5624092703542427554" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Bfl5nyuIa_4/TgzKhCKDP6I/AAAAAAAABbc/c4Nx8cTHDD4/s400/Cork%2BSanctuary%2BCrucifix.JPG" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 400px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 300px;" /></a><br />
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The retreat was my first visit to Mount Melleray. After a long drive from Dublin my first glimpse came as somewhat of a surprise, seeing it from a distance nestled on the side of the</div>
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On Friday afternoon, while confessions were being heard in the People's Church, the other retreatants had a talk from a member of the Community about the life and spirituality of the Cistercians, as they do every year. Fr. Denis Luke spoke about the Rule of St. Benedict. Afterwards, he took them on a tour of the Abbey Church and farm yard, including the famous miraculous bin of Mount Melleray.</div>
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Just a Girlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15517341215955002045noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3503689522096376739.post-26016812217575433012018-07-28T21:43:00.000+01:002018-07-29T00:51:47.468+01:00Pilgrimage to Borris, County CarlowMembers and friends of the Catholic Heritage Association joined together this afternoon for a Pilgrimage to Borris, County Carlow, and a Traditional Latin Mass in the beautiful Church of the Sacred Heart, at the foot of Mount Leinster, in the valley of the River Barrow eight miles upstream from Graiguenamanagh and next to Borris House, seat of the McMorrough Kavanaghs, the ancient Gaelic Kings of Leinster. The Mass celebrated was that of the day, the feast of Saints Nazarius and Celsus, Martyrs; Victor I, Pope and Martyr; and Innocent I, Pope and Confessor.<br />
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Reports of previous Traditional Latin Masses organised by the Association to Borris can be found here: <a href="http://catholicheritage.blogspot.com/2012/04/mass-in-borris-for-popes-birthday.html" target="_blank">2012</a>, <a href="http://catholicheritage.blogspot.com/2013/02/latin-mass-in-borris.html" target="_blank">2013</a>, <a href="https://saintconlethscatholicheritage.blogspot.com/2014/07/latin-mass-pilgrimage-to-borris-2014.html" target="_blank">2014</a>.<br />
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Unfortunately, Buildings of Ireland has only a short account of the Church <a href="http://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=CW&regno=10400826" target="_blank">here</a>.<br />
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The Parish website can be found <a href="http://www.borrisparish.ie/parish-churches/sacred-heart-church/?on=1" target="_blank">here</a> and the link to the webcam of the Church can be found <a href="https://www.mcnmedia.tv/camera/borris/" target="_blank">here</a>.<br />
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<br />Pilgrimages Committeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10801687451191548487noreply@blogger.comKnocknagundarragh, Borris, Co. Carlow, Ireland52.5998053 -6.923082399999998432.870773299999996 -48.2316764 72.3288373 34.3855116tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3503689522096376739.post-53213843588843386972018-07-21T20:03:00.000+01:002018-07-22T02:04:46.934+01:00Traditional Latin Mass Pilgrimage to StrokestownA warm welcome awaited us today in Strokestown, Co. Roscommon, the home place of the late Fr. Flanagan, our first Chaplain, today for a Traditional Latin Mass for the repose of his soul in the Parish Church of the Immaculate Conception, a towering beacon in stone standing guard over the town, on the feast of St. Lawrence of Brindisi. Our grateful thanks to the Priests and People of Strokestown for their many kindnesses.<br />
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Buildings of Ireland has a full description of the Church <a href="http://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?county=RO&regno=31811018&type=record" target="_blank">here</a>.<br />
The online Dictionary of Irish Architects has a note of the Church <a href="https://www.dia.ie/works/view/7132/building/CO.+ROSCOMMON,+STROKESTOWN,+ELPHIN+STREET,+CHURCH+OF+THE+IMMACULATE+CONCEPTION+(RC)" target="_blank">here</a>.<br />
Reports of previous pilgrimages can be found <a href="http://saintassicuscatholicheritage.blogspot.com/2014/04/latin-mass-in-strokestown-2013.html" target="_blank">here</a> (2013) and <a href="http://saintassicuscatholicheritage.blogspot.com/2015/03/latin-mass-in-strokestown-2014.html" target="_blank">here</a> (2014)<br />
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<br />Pilgrimages Committeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10801687451191548487noreply@blogger.comElphin St, Strokestown, Co. Roscommon, Ireland53.780134399999987 -8.103962453.770751899999986 -8.1241324 53.789516899999988 -8.0837924tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3503689522096376739.post-12853900992768284972018-06-25T14:18:00.000+01:002018-07-08T12:59:04.284+01:00First Pilgrimage to TullamoreIt would a joyful privilege for members and friends of the Catholic Heritage Association to be joined by so many people from Tullamore and the surrounding Parishes for our first pilgrimage to the Church of the Assumption, Tullamore, Co. Offaly, last Saturday.<br />
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The Parish website gives an excellent history of the Catholic Heritage of Tullamore, on the occasion of the recent centenary of the Church, <a href="http://www.tullamoreparish.ie/church-of-assumption" target="_blank">here</a>, with a survey of the Church building <a href="http://www.tullamoreparish.ie/component/content/category/48-church-building" target="_blank">here</a>. Buildings of Ireland, as ever, has a thorough appraisal of the Church itself <a href="http://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=OF&regno=14807082" target="_blank">here</a>. Archiseek has another excellent piece <a href="http://archiseek.com/2015/1906-church-of-the-assumption-tullamore-co-offaly/" target="_blank">here</a>.<br />
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Our good friends at Tullamore Parish have posted some photos of the Mass on their excellent Parish website <a href="http://www.tullamoreparish.ie/pictures-and-articles-mainmenu-191/2018/4714-latin-mass" target="_blank">here</a>. Mary with her loving Son, bless us each and every one!<br />
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<br />Pilgrimages Committeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10801687451191548487noreply@blogger.comChurch St, Tullamore, Co. Offaly, Ireland53.2745342 -7.489548499999955353.272160199999995 -7.4945909999999554 53.2769082 -7.4845059999999553tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3503689522096376739.post-10198788784238897732018-05-01T08:18:00.000+01:002018-07-03T19:02:02.668+01:00Our Gaelic Christian Heritage (Part 3)The figure of High King Brian Boru stands astride the history of Gaelic Ireland like a colossus. Although not of the Uí Neill dynasty that had ruled Ireland since Niall Noígiallach (Niall of the Nine Hostages) in the 5th Century, Boru showed himself to be the strongest and most fit for the throne. It is a testimony to the cultural stability of Gaelic Ireland that Máel Sechnaill II, who had abdicated the High Kingship in his favour, was also his successor when his line was extinguished at the Battle of Clontarf on Good Friday, 23rd April, 1014.<br /><br />Perhaps the greatest 'what if' in Irish history is 'what if Brian Boru had survived the Battle of Clontarf'. It is conceivable that Ireland could have taken a great leap forward towards unity or feudalism at a moment when Robert the Pious struggled to maintain his throne, even against his own sons, and when St. Henry II found it difficult to gain recognition for his claim to the Imperial throne. At the time, Spain was struggling for survival against the Moors and Richard, Duke of Normandy, grandfather of William the Bastard, was withstanding a revolt of peasants. An Ireland united culturally and spiritually under the leadership of a powerful and dynamic dynasty would surely have been a very different one from the one seen from Bannow Bay in 1169.<br /><br />While a good deal of romanticism surrounds our perceptions of Boru and Clontarf - and over-simplification of issues - it should be noted that Gaelic Ireland avoided the fate of England, which received Canute as King the following year. It was another class of Viking, the Normans of Wales, who descended a century later to begin the most sorrowful chapters of Irish history.<br /><br />The following is a poetical account by William Kennealy of the address of King Brian, holding aloft the Crucifix, to his troops before the Battle of Clontarf:<br /><br />"Stand ye now for Erin's glory! Stand ye now for Erin's cause!<br />Long ye've groaned beneath the rigor of the Northmen's savage laws.<br />What though brothers league against us? What, though myriad be the foe?<br />Victory will be more honored in the myriads' overthrow.<br /><br />"Proud Connacians! oft we've wrangled in our petty feuds of yore;<br />Now we fight against the robber Dane upon our native shore;<br />May our hearts unite in friendship, as our blood in one red tide,<br />While we crush their mail-clad legions, and annihilate their pride!<br /><br />"Brave Eugenians! Erin triumphs in the sight she sees to-day-<br />Desmond's homesteads all deserted for the muster and the fray!<br />Cluan's vale and Galtees' summit send their bravest and their best-<br />May such hearts be theirs forever, for the Freedom of the West!<br /><br />"Chiefs and Kernes of Dalcassia! Brothers of my past career,<br />Oft we've trodden on the pirate-flag that flaunts before us here;<br />You remember Inniscattery, how we bounded on the foe,<br />As the torrent of the mountain bursts upon the plain below!<br /><br />"They have razed our proudest castles , spoiled the Temples of the Lord,<br />Burned to dust the sacred relics, put the Peaceful to the sword,<br />Desecrated all things holy, as they soon may do again;<br />If their power to-day we smite not, if to-day we be not men!<br /><br />"On this day the God-man suffered - look upon the sacred sign;<br />May we conquer 'neath its shadow, as of old did Constantine!<br />May the heathen tribe of Odin fade before it like a dream,<br />And the triumph of this glorious day in our future annuals gleam!<br /><br />"God of heaven, bless our banner, nerve our sinews for the strife!<br />Fight we now for all that's holy, for our altars, land and life,<br />For red vengeance on the spoiler, whom the blazing temples trace,<br />For the honor of our maidens and the glory of our race!<br /><br />"Should I fall before the foeman, 'tis the death I seek to-day;<br />Should ten thousand daggers pierce me, bear my body not away,<br />Till this day of days be over, till the field is fought and won;<br />Then the holy Mass be chanted, and the funeral rites be done.<br /><br />"Men of Erin! men of Erin! grasp the battle-ax: and spear!<br />Chase these Northern wolves before you like a herd of frightened deer!<br />Burst their ranks, like bolts from heaven! Down, on the heathen crew,<br />For the glory of the Crucified, and Erin's glory too!"Catholic Heritage Associationhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16931529213337535429noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3503689522096376739.post-66599537981823526512018-04-30T15:17:00.000+01:002018-07-03T19:01:53.595+01:00Our Gaelic Christian Heritage (Part 2)Grandson of High King Conn Cétchathach (Conn of the Hundred Battles), Cormac Mac Airt came to the High Kingship about the year AD 116 and is the most glorious of the High Kings of Tara. The works of learning, wisdom and jurisprudence attributed to him, the Psalter of Tara, the Seanchas Mór (at least in original form), and the Teagasc na Ríogh attest to cultural greatness of his reign, apart from the "fruit and fatness" of the land in his time.<br />
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Of greatest interest to us is that King Cormac was reputed to have rejected the superstitions of the Druids, refusing to worship the carvings, saying that the carver deserved greater worship still. His reign was brought to an end by a grave disfiguring injury - since such disfigurements excluded the sufferer from exercising Sovereignty among the ancient Irish. He lived for some time thereafter but, his final wish was to be buried, not at the pagan burying-place of Brugh na Bóinne, but at Ross na Ríogh. His wishes were disregarded but Providence intervened to fulfill them. Sir Samuel Ferguson's poem 'The Burial of King Cormac' relates the story thus:<br />
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"Crom Cruach and his sub-gods twelve,"<br />
Said Cormac, "are but craven treene:<br />
The axe that made them, haft and helve,<br />
Had worthier of our worship been.<br />
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But He who made the tree to grow,<br />
And hid in earth the iron stone,<br />
And made the man with mind to know<br />
The axe's use, is God alone."<br />
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Anon to priests of Crom was brought<br />
(Where girded in their service dread<br />
They ministered on red Moy Slaught)<br />
Word of the words King Cormac said.<br />
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They loosed their curse against the king,<br />
They cursed him in his flesh and bones<br />
And daily in their mystic ring<br />
They turned the maledictive stones.<br />
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Till, where at meat the monarch sate<br />
Amid the revel and the wine,<br />
He choked upon the food he ate<br />
At Sletty, southward of the Boyne.<br />
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High vaunted then the priestly throng,<br />
And far and wide they noised abroad<br />
With trump and loud liturgic song<br />
The praise of their avenging god.<br />
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But ere the voice was wholly spent<br />
That priest and prince should still obey,<br />
To awed attendants o'er him bent<br />
Great Cormac gathered breath to say:<br />
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"Spread not the beds of Brugh for me,<br />
When restless death-bed's use is done;<br />
But bury me at Ross-na-ree,<br />
And face me to the rising sun.<br />
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"For all the kings that lie in Brugh<br />
Put trust in gods of wood and stone;<br />
And 'twas at Ross that I first knew<br />
One, Unseen, who is God alone.<br />
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"His glory lightens from the east,<br />
His message soon shall reach our shore,<br />
And idol-god and cursing priest<br />
Shall plague us from Moy Slaught no more."<br />
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Dead Cormac on his bier they laid:<br />
"He reigned a king for forty years;<br />
And shame it were," his captains said,<br />
"He lay not with his royal peers:<br />
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"His grandsire, Hundred Battles, sleeps<br />
Serene in Brugh, and all around<br />
Dead kings, in stone sepulchral keeps,<br />
Protect the sacred burial ground.<br />
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"What though a dying man should rave<br />
Of changes o'er the eastern sea,<br />
In Brugh of Boyne shall be his grave,<br />
And not in noteless Rossnaree."<br />
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Then northward forth they bore the bier,<br />
And down from Sleithac's side they drew<br />
With horseman and with charioteer,<br />
To cross the fords of Boyne to Brugh."<br />
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There came a breath of finer air<br />
That touched the Boyne with ruffling wings,<br />
It stirred him in his sedgy lair<br />
And in his mossy moorland springs.<br />
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And as the burial train came down<br />
With dirge, and savage dolorous shows,<br />
Across their pathway broad and brown,<br />
The deep full-hearted river rose.<br />
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From bank to bank through all his fords,<br />
'Neath blackening squalls he swelled and boiled,<br />
And thrice the wond'ring gentile lords<br />
Essay'd to cross, and thrice recoil'd.<br />
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Then forth stepped gray-haired warriors four;<br />
They said: "Through angrier floods than these,<br />
On link'd shield once our King we bore<br />
From Dread-spear and the hosts of Deece;<br />
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"And long as loyal will holds good,<br />
And limbs respond with helpful thews,<br />
Nor flood nor fiend within the flood<br />
Shall bar him of his burial dues."<br />
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With slanted necks they stooped to lift;<br />
They heaved him up to neck and chin;<br />
And, pair by pair, with footsteps swift,<br />
Locked arm and shoulder, bore him in.<br />
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'Twas brave to see them leave the shore;<br />
To mark the deepening surges rise,<br />
And fall subdued in foam before<br />
The tension of their striding thighs.<br />
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'Twas brave, when now a spear-cast out,<br />
Breast-high the battling surges ran;<br />
For eweight was great, and limbs were stout,<br />
And loyal man put trust in man.<br />
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But ere they reached the middle deep,<br />
Nor steadying weight of clay they bore,<br />
Nor strain of sinewy limbs could keep<br />
Their feet beneath the swerving four.<br />
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And now they slide and now they swim,<br />
And now amid the blackening squall,<br />
Gray locks afloat with clutchings grim,<br />
They plunge around the floating pall.<br />
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While as a youth with practiced spear<br />
Through justling crowds bears off the ring-<br />
Boyne from their shoulders caught the bier,<br />
And proudly bare away the King!"<br />
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At morning on the grassy marge<br />
Of Ross-na-ree the corpse was found,<br />
And shepherds at their early charge,<br />
Entombed it in the peaceful ground.<br />
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A tranquil spot : a hopeful sound<br />
Comes from the ever-youthful stream,<br />
And still on daisied mead and mound<br />
The dawn delays with tenderer beam.<br />
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Round Cormac, Spring renews her buds;<br />
In march perpetual by his side,<br />
Down come the earth-fresh April floods,<br />
And up the sea-fresh salmon glide;<br />
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And life and time rejoicing run<br />
From age to age their wonted way;<br />
But still he waits the risen Sun,<br />
For still 'tis only dawning Day.Catholic Heritage Associationhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16931529213337535429noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3503689522096376739.post-77877657844067475082018-05-03T01:23:00.001+01:002018-07-03T19:01:17.706+01:00Sletty (Walsh)The following is from Fr. Thomas Walsh's <em>History of the Irish Hierarchy</em>, published in New York in 1854, chapter lviii, at p. 620:<br />
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Sletty in the barony of Sleevemarge The see of St Fiech the disciple and favorite of St Patrick and to whom the apostle presented many valuable gifts St Aidus bishop of Sletty who died in 699 and whose name occurs in the Irish calendars at the 7th of February and to whom a life of St Patrick was addressed by a writer called Macuthenus was one of the fathers who composed the synod of Flann Febhla primate of Armagh and of St Adamnan abbot of Hy Seven disciples of St Fiech rest in Sletty Moehatoc Augustin Tegan Dermot Nennid Paul a hermit and FedhlimCatholic Heritage Associationhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16931529213337535429noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3503689522096376739.post-69267430914284711272018-05-31T15:30:00.000+01:002018-07-03T19:01:11.047+01:00Our Gaelic Christian Heritage (Part 4)As the Penal Laws took hold through the 18th Century, it was State policy to ensure that the resources of a persecuted Catholic People dwindled. In the <em>Lament for Kilcash</em>, the death of Lady Margaret Butler of Kilcash, and with her, a source of benevolent patronage for Catholics.<br />
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The central theme is contained in the lines "bhíodh iarlaí ag tarraingt tar toinn ann, is an t-aifreann binn á rá." Nobles made their way o'er the waves thence, and there the sweet Mass was said. The poem is variously attributed.<br />
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Cad a dhéanfaimid feasta gan adhmad?<br />
Tá deireadh na gcoillte ar lár;<br />
níl trácht ar Chill Cháis ná ar a teaghlach<br />
ní bainfear a cloig go bráth.<br />
An áit úd a gcónaiodh an deighbhean<br />
fuair gradam is meidhir thar mhná,<br />
bhíodh iarlaí ag tarraingt tar toinn ann<br />
is an t-aifreann binn á rá.<br />
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Ní chluinim fuiaim lachan ná gé ann,<br />
ná fiolar ag éamh sois cuain,<br />
ná fiú na mbeacha chun saothair<br />
thabharfadh mil agus céir don tslua.<br />
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le hamharc an lae a dhul uainn,<br />
ná an chuaichín i mbarra na ngéag ann,<br />
ós í chuirfeadh an saol chun suain.<br />
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Tá ceo ag titim ar chraobha ann<br />
ná glanann le gréin ná lá,<br />
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is a cuid uisce g léir ag trá.<br />
Níl coll, níl cuileann, níl caor ann,<br />
ach clocha is maolchlocháin,<br />
páirc an chomhair gan chraobh ann<br />
is d' imigh an géim chun fáin.<br />
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Anois mar bharr ar gach míghreanní,<br />
chuaigh prionsa na nGael thar sáil</div>
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anonn le hainnir na míne</div>
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fuair gradam sa bhFrainc is sa Spáinn.<br />
Anois tá a cuallacht á caoineadh,<br />
gheibbeadh airgead buí agus bán;<br />
's í ná tógladh sillbh na ndaoine,<br />
ach cara na bhfíorbhochtán.<br />
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Aicim ar Mhuire is ar Íosa<br />
go dtaga sí arís chughainn slán,<br />
go mbeidh rincí fada ag gabháil timpeall,<br />
ceol veidhlín is tinte cnámh;<br />
go dtógtar an baile seo ár sinsear<br />
Cill Chais bhreá arís go hard,<br />
's go bráth nó go dtiocfaidh<br />
an dílená feictear é arís ar lár.<br />
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Or in an English version:<br />
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Now what will we do for timber,<br />
With the last of the woods laid low?<br />
There's no talk of Cill Chais or its household<br />
And its bell will be struck no more.<br />
That dwelling where lived the good lady<br />
Most honoured and joyous of women<br />
earls made their way over wave there<br />
And the sweet Mass once was said.<br />
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Ducks' voices nor geese do I hear there,<br />
Nor the eagle's cry over the bay,<br />
Nor even the bees at their labour<br />
Bringing honey and wax to us all.<br />
No birdsong there, sweet and delightful,<br />
As we watch the sun go down,<br />
Nor cuckoo on top of the branches<br />
Settling the world to rest.<br />
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A mist on the boughs is descending<br />
Neither daylight nor sun can clear.<br />
A stain from the sky is descending<br />
And the waters receding away.<br />
No hazel nor holly nor berry<br />
But boulders and bare stone heaps,<br />
Not a branch in our neighbourly haggard,<br />
and the game all scattered and gone.<br />
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Then a climax to all of our misery:<br />
the prince of the Gael is abroad<br />
oversea with that maiden of mildness<br />
who found honour in France and Spain.<br />
Her company now must lament her,<br />
who would give yellow money and white<br />
she who'd never take land from the people<br />
but was friend to the truly poor.<br />
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I call upon Mary and Jesus<br />
to send her safe home again:<br />
dances we'll have in long circles<br />
and bone-fires and violin music;<br />
that Cill Chais, the townland of our fathers,<br />
will rise handsome on high once more<br />
and till doom - or the Deluge returns -<br />
we'll see it no more laid low.</div>
Catholic Heritage Associationhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16931529213337535429noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3503689522096376739.post-31853484360387783932018-06-19T12:20:00.000+01:002018-07-03T19:00:01.142+01:00Our Gaelic Christian Heritage (Part 5)Among the stirring lines that affirm the high endeavour of the Gaelic Race in the cause of Christ, few can equal for sheer force and colour, some anonymous lines urging fidelity to the True Church against the wiles of heresy. Qui legit intellegat!<br />
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<em>Ní trácht ar an Ministir Ghollda,<br />Ná a chreideamh gan bunús gan bhrí,<br />Mar 'sé ba bhunchloch dá Theampall,<br />Magairlí Anraoí an Ríogh!</em><br />
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<br />Pilgrimages Committeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10801687451191548487noreply@blogger.comElphin St, Strokestown, Co. Roscommon, Ireland53.780134399999987 -8.103962453.770751899999986 -8.1241324 53.789516899999988 -8.0837924tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3503689522096376739.post-75813529713412499822018-02-17T01:23:00.000+00:002018-07-03T18:50:37.089+01:00Clonenagh (Walsh)The following is from Fr. Thomas Walsh's <em>History of the Irish Hierarchy</em>, published in New York in 1854, chapter lviii, at p. 617-18:<br />
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Clonenagh in the barony of Maryborough<br />
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St. Fintan of Clonenagh was the celebrated master of Comgall of Bangor. Fintan was a native of Leinster and son of Gabhren and Findath both of whom were Christians. On the eighth day after his birth he was baptized at Cluain mic trein which was probably in the neighborhood of Ross. His birth took place about the year 520. He received his early education under the holy man by whom he had been baptized and when of mature age he attached himself to St Columba, son of Crimthan, with whom he remamed until by his advice he established himself at Clonenagh about 548.<br />
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Young as Fintan was, his reputation for sanctity soon spread so that numbers of persons from various quarters of Ireland flocked to Clonenagh and became members of his institution. His monks not only lived by the sweat of their brows but cultivated the ground with the spade not having as much as a cow to assist them in their agricultural labors. The discipline of the house was exceedingly severe and the fasting seemed almost intolerable to some holy men. St. Cannech, among others on whose interference Fintan relaxed the discipline allowing milk to the monks, while towards himself he was unbending.<br />
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It is related that Cormac, a young prince, son of Dearmod, king of Hy Kinsellagh, was kept in chains by Colman, king of North Leinster, and who intended to put him to death, and that St. Fintan having gone with some of his disciples to the king's residence in order to procure the deliverance of the young prince, so affrighted Colman or Colum that he gave him up. This young prince, having afterwards ruled for a considerable time, ended his days in the monastery of St. Comgall of Bangor. Fintan was also gifted with a prophetic spirit an instance of which is stated to have happened on hearing an unworthy priest offering the holy sacrifice. Being horror struck at his impiety, the saint foretold that this unhappy priest would abandon his order and habit and, returning to the world, would die in his sins.<br />
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Columbkille is said to have had such an esteem for Fintan that he directed a young religious named Columbanus of the district of Leix, who was returning from Hy to Ireland, to choose him for his spiritual director and confessor. Accordingly, Columbanus waited upon him and related what the holy abbot of Hy had recommended. Fintan desired that he would not mention it to any other person during his lifetime and died very soon after. Before his death, which was somewhat prior to that of Columbkille, he appointed, with the permission and benediction of the brethren and of other holy men who had come to visit him, Fintan Maeldubh as abbot and successor at Clonenagh. Blessing his community and partaking of the body of the Lord he departed this life on the 17th of February.<br />
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His name is mentioned with particular respect in various Martyrologies both foreign and Irish. The year of his death is not mentioned, as is the case with other saints of Ireland, while the day is faithfully recorded. Natalis, which means a natal or birth day, is used to express the day of a saint's death because he then enters on a life that is everlasting. Other hagiologists say <i>coepit vivere</i>, he begins to live. Hence it is the day on which the memory of the saint is preserved, while the year of his death is omitted.<br />
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AD 625 died the abbot St Fintan Maeldubh. His festival is observed on the 20th of October<br />
AD 830 the Danes destroyed this abbey<br />
AD 866 died the abbot Laicten<br />
AD 909 died Tiopraid bishop of this abbey<br />
AD 919 again plundered by the Danes<br />
AD 937 Ceallachan, king of Cashel, assisted by the Danes of Watorford, wasted the country of Meath, pillaged and sacked this abbey making the abbot a prisoner<br />
AD 940 Ceallach, bishop of Clonenach, died<br />
AD 970 died the bishop and abbot Muredach O'Connor<br />
AD 991 died the abbot Diarmit, a professor of Kildare and a man of uncommon eruditionCatholic Heritage Associationhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16931529213337535429noreply@blogger.comClonenagh, Spahill, Co. Laois, Ireland53.0091704 -7.4259715000000652.9900619 -7.46631200000006 53.028278900000004 -7.38563100000006tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3503689522096376739.post-21434858492717485972018-05-27T13:50:00.000+01:002018-07-03T13:55:37.336+01:00Pilgrimage to Loughrea, County GalwayMembers and friends of the Catholic Heritage Association returned in pilgrimage to Saint Brendan's Cathedral, Loughrea, the jewel of the Celtic Arts and Crafts revival. A report of the 2017 pilgrimage can be found <a href="http://catholicheritage.blogspot.com/2017/05/pilgrimage-to-loughrea-cathedral-2017.html">here</a>. The Mass was offered for the unborn as it was the morning of the vote count for the Referendum on the 8th Amendment to the Irish Constitution.<br />
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The Cathedral's website can be found <a href="http://www.loughreacathedral.ie/">here</a>.<br />
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The Buildings of Ireland survey with additional images of the architectural detail can be found <a href="http://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=GA&regno=30337038">here</a>.
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Roaringwater Journal gives a really good detailed view of the art of the Cathedral <a href="https://roaringwaterjournal.com/2018/06/24/loughrea-cathedral-and-the-irish-arts-and-crafts-movement/">here</a>.<br />
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The Dictionary of Irish Architects gives details of the works of the Cathedral <a href="https://www.dia.ie/works/view/14225/building/CO.+GALWAY,+LOUGHREA,+CATHEDRAL+OF+ST+BRENDAN+(RC)">here</a>.<br />
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Aidan McRae Thompson's excellent flickr album of the Cathedral can be accessed <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/amthomson/sets/72157624352160005/">here</a>.<br />
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Wikipedia has a short account of the Cathedral <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Brendan%27s_Cathedral,_Loughrea">here</a>.
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<br />Pilgrimages Committeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10801687451191548487noreply@blogger.com26 Barrack St, Loughrea, Co. Galway, Ireland53.197391800000013 -8.566646699999978433.468365800000015 -49.875240699999978 72.92641780000001 32.741947300000021tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3503689522096376739.post-50977544898146957982018-07-02T12:39:00.000+01:002018-07-02T14:41:55.164+01:00Pilgrimage to Kilcock, County KildareMembers and friends of the Catholic Heritage Association joined together last Saturday for a Traditional Latin Mass for the repose of the soul of one of our founder members.<br />
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Reports of previous Traditional Latin Masses organised by the Association in Kilcock can be found here: <a href="http://catholicheritage.blogspot.com/2009/03/pilgrimage-to-kilcock.html">2009</a>, <a href="http://catholicheritage.blogspot.com/2010/11/requiem-for-deceased-members-2010.html">2010</a>, <a href="http://catholicheritage.blogspot.com/2011/11/requiem-mass-for-deceased-members.html">2011</a>, <a href="https://catholicheritage.blogspot.com/2012/12/latin-mass-in-kilcock.html">2012</a>, <a href="http://catholicheritage.blogspot.com/2013/10/latin-mass-in-kilcock-co-kildare.html">2013</a>, 2015, 2017.<br />
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The Patroness of the Parish is St. Coca. You can find out more about her <a href="https://catholicheritage.blogspot.com/2009/06/st-coca-of-kilcock.html" target="_blank">here</a>.<br />
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St. Ninian of Scotland began his career in Cloncurry, also in the Parish. You can find out about his connection with Kilcock <a href="https://catholicheritage.blogspot.com/2009/09/saint-ninian-of-cloncurry.html" target="_blank">here</a>.<br />
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Buildings of Ireland gives a detailed description of the Church of St. Coca <a href="http://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=KD&regno=11802021" target="_blank">here</a>.<br />
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<br />Pilgrimages Committeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10801687451191548487noreply@blogger.comCommons East, Kilcock, Co. Kildare, Ireland53.3994266 -6.668123299999933833.670394099999996 -47.976717299999933 73.1284591 34.640470700000066tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3503689522096376739.post-53740915910680897362018-06-28T09:09:00.000+01:002018-06-28T09:09:10.233+01:00Killeigh (Walsh)The following is from Fr. Thomas Walsh's <em>History of the Irish Hierarchy</em>, published in New York in 1854, chapter l, at p. 512:<br />
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Killeigh in the barony of Geashill. St. Sinchell founded this monastery for canons of St. Augustine. See Clane Co Kildare. <br />
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AD 849 died Reaghtawry abbot of Killeigh <br />
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June 28th eighteenth of Elizabeth this monastery with three messuages one hundred and twenty four acres of arable land twenty four of pasture three of meadow and four of underwood and three messuages six cottages twenty acres of arable land and seven of pasture in the town of Donfeigh in the county with the tithes were granted for ever in capite to John Lee at the yearly rent of 45s 6d. <br />
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May 16th 1578 this abbey with all its temporal possessions was granted to Gerald, Earl of Kildare, and his heirs at the yearly rent of 33s 4d with an obligation of maintaining one able horseman. <br />
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A nunnery for canonesses of St. Augustine existed here. Its erection is attributed to the Warrens but before the English settled in Ireland. This establishment was in existence. They may have repaired it Gray Friary. This house was erected in the reign of King Edward I by an O Connor as some suppose. <br />
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AD 1303 Donald O Bruin guardian of this monastery was made bishop of Clonmacnoise. <br />
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At the general suppression this abbey was granted to John Alee. Killeigh was formerly a place of note and its religious houses were amply endowed particularly the monastery of the canons regular.<br />
<br />Catholic Heritage Associationhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16931529213337535429noreply@blogger.comMillbrook, Killeigh, Co. Offaly, Ireland53.2140733 -7.450342699999964733.4850488 -48.758936699999964 72.9430978 33.858251300000035tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3503689522096376739.post-7701026933911096322018-06-24T11:02:00.000+01:002018-06-25T23:15:37.422+01:00Latin Mass Pilgrimage to Kilcock, Co. KildareWe are returning to St. Coca's Church, Kilcock, Co. Kildare, on Saturday, 30th June, for a Traditional Latin Mass at 12 noon.<br />
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<b><i>Come and Pray!</i></b>Pilgrimages Committeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10801687451191548487noreply@blogger.com2 Church St, Commons East, Kilcock, Co. Kildare, W23 Y566, Ireland53.401492200000007 -6.668572400000016433.67246320000001 -47.977166400000016 73.1305212 34.640021599999983tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3503689522096376739.post-59418754917026283202018-06-23T18:05:00.000+01:002018-06-23T18:05:20.388+01:00Latin Mass in Ballyhea - Feast of Saints Peter and PaulThe next Mass in St. Mary's Church, Ballyhea, Co. Cork, will be on the Feast of Saints Peter and Paul, 29th June, at 12 noon.
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<b><i>Come and pray with us!</i></b>Pilgrimages Committeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10801687451191548487noreply@blogger.comBallyhea, Co. Cork, Ireland52.3272078 -8.6758571000000352.3175038 -8.69602710000003 52.336911799999996 -8.65568710000003tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3503689522096376739.post-31339287762379078352018-06-01T00:20:00.000+01:002018-06-19T16:52:03.916+01:00Latin Mass Pilgrimage to TullamoreFor the first time, the Catholic Heritage Association will be making a pilgrimage to historic Tullamore, Co. Offaly, on Saturday, 23rd June, with a Traditional Latin Mass celebrated in the Parish Church of the Assumption at 2.30 p.m.<br />
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<b><i>Come and pray!</i></b>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15254464139252902706noreply@blogger.comStore St, Tullamore, Co. Offaly, Ireland53.2770795 -7.488971699999979153.274706 -7.4940141999999792 53.279453 -7.4839291999999791tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3503689522096376739.post-56700052512067819912018-04-29T13:43:00.000+01:002018-06-19T16:44:29.078+01:00Latin Mass Pilgrimage to Bansha 2018<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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We were blessed to return for a third time to Bansha, Co. Tipperary, to pray at the grave of the mighty Canon Hayes and to visit Athassel Abbey, one of the largest ecclesiastical sites in the Country. The sun always seems to shine in Bansha! The welcome is always warm too.<br />
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<a href="http://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=TS&regno=22109009" target="_blank">Buildings of Ireland</a> has a fine description of the architecture of the Church of the Annunciation.<br />
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Fittingly for the Church of the Annunciation, the Mass was held in the shadow - and offered for the intention - of the Referendum on the Protection of Unborn Life.<br />
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Nearby Golden was the birthplace of the outstanding Fr. Matthew, OFMCap, the Apostle of Temperance. There must be something powerful in the water thereabouts. Golden is dotted with medieval ruins and is well worth a visit by itself. However, our target was between Golden and Bansha, the great Abbey or Priory of Athassel.<br />
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<a href="http://irelandinruins.blogspot.com/2011/06/athassel-abbey-co-tipperary.html" target="_blank">IrelandinRuins</a> gives a snapshot of a visit there. The abbey was built for the Augustinians by William Fitz-Aldhelm de Burgho in the 12th century. Dedicated to St. Edmund, it was one of Ireland’s most extensive monasteries, covering about 4 acres of land along the banks of the River Suir.<br />
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<br />Pilgrimages Committeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10801687451191548487noreply@blogger.comBallinlough East, Bansha, Co. Tipperary, Ireland52.4482369 -8.064295899999933732.719198399999996 -49.372889899999933 72.1772754 33.244298100000066tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3503689522096376739.post-36086878282363615482018-05-06T16:07:00.000+01:002018-06-19T16:17:11.874+01:00Pilgrimage to Holy Cross Abbey 2018<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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To make a pilgrimage to Holy Cross Abbey, Holycross, Co. Tipperary, is to walk the path to Calvary and to walk in the footsteps of almost nine centuries of pilgrims. The Abbey was once home to the monks of the great Cistercian Order.<br />
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The <a href="https://www.libraryireland.com/Atlas/Tipperary-Holy-Cross.php">Atlas and Cyclopedia of Ireland (1900)</a> says of it: "This monastic ruin is considered to rank in popular esteem as one of the first, if not the very first, in Ireland. It is situated on the western bank of the Suir about seven miles north of Cashel. It was founded in 1182 by Donald O'Brien, king of Limerick, for the Cistercian monks; but is said to owe its origin and name to the possession of piece of the True Cross, presented in 1110 by Pope Pascal II to Murrough O'Brien, monarch of Ireland... The Abbey is appropriately built in the form of a cross, with nave, chancel and transept, and a lofty, square belfrey at the intersection of the cross. In both transepts are two distinct chapels beautifully groined. It was endowed with special privileges, and the abbot was a peer of parliament with the title of Earl of the Holy Cross."<br />
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Further details can be found on <a href="https://pilgrimagemedievalireland.com/2012/10/26/holycross-abbey-medieval-pilgrimage-and-historic-tours/">PilgrimageMedievalIreland</a> including that: "in 1567 the Lord deputy complaining to the Queen wrote ‘there is no small conflunence of people still resorting to the holy cross’. In 1579 James Fitzmaurice Fitzgerald is said to have venerated the relic of the cross at the abbey a few weeks before his death at the hands of the Burkes, while 1583 Dermot O’Hurley archbishop of Cashel made a pilgrimage to the shrine shortly before his capture by the English. The relic of the cross would have attracted people from all classes and in 1586 Camden writes of the ‘famous abbey’ to which the people still come to do reverence to the relic of the Holy Cross’. He goes on to say ‘It is incredible what a concourse of people still throng hither out of devotion. For this nation obstinately adheres to the religion of superstition of their forefathers.’"<br />
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Good old <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_Cross_Abbey">Wikipedia</a> adds a poignant detail: "The Annals of the Kingdom of Ireland recount that in 1601, Prince Hugh Roe O'Donnell, on his way to the Battle of Kinsale, true to his family arms and Constantinian motto (In Hoc Signo Vinces) and in anticipation of the battle to come at Kinsale, visited and venerated a relic of the True Cross (Holy rood) on the Feast of St. Andrew, on November 30, 1601 at Holy Cross Abbey. At that period it was a rallying point for the defence of religious freedom and for Irish sovereignty. From there he sent an expedition to Ardfert, to win a quick victory and successfully recover the territory of his ally, Fitzmaurice, Lord of Kerry, who had lost it and his 9-year-old son, to Sir Charles Wilmot. It was the last victory before the defeat at Kinsale."<br />
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<a href="http://archiseek.com/2009/holycross-abbey-co-tipperary/">Archiseek</a> has, as ever, some excellent images of the abbey and add that "it became a scheduled national monument in 1880, 'to be preserved and not used as a place of worship'" However, a special Holycross Act was passed by the Irish Parliament, the Oireachtas, to allow the Church to be restored to its intended use and as the old song has it: "is an t-aifreann binn á rá" (and the sweet Mass was said there once more).<br />
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Our third pilgrimage in the Archdiocese of Cashel and Emly in recent months and following also in the footsteps of 'Ecclesia Dei - Ireland' that had held aloft the banner of the Traditional Latin Mass for so many years, we returned on the 5th May, the traditional time close to the old Feast of the Holy Cross on 3rd May, for the 26th Annual Latin Mass Pilgrimage to Holy Cross Abbey. Faugh a Ballagh!
Pilgrimages Committeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10801687451191548487noreply@blogger.comHolycross, Co. Tipperary, Ireland52.6397686 -7.870179399999983632.910741599999994 -49.178773399999983 72.3687956 33.438414600000016tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3503689522096376739.post-72033649845701572702018-06-16T20:51:00.001+01:002018-06-19T16:14:04.692+01:00Pilgrimage to Duiske Abbey 2018Along the waters of the mighty River Barrow that forms the backbone of the Diocese of Kildare and Leighlin - and whose waters have witnessed many of our pilgrimages in the past - we returned again to beautiful Graiguenamanagh and to the ancient and new Duiske Abbey for a Traditional Latin Mass of Our Lady on Saturday. Reports of previous pilgrimages are to be found <a href="http://catholicheritage.blogspot.com/2014/03/latin-mass-in-duiske-abbey.html">here</a> and <a href="http://catholicheritage.blogspot.com/2013/03/latin-mass-in-graignamanagh.html">here</a>, <a href="http://catholicheritage.blogspot.com/2012/05/latin-mass-in-duiske-abbey-scapulars-of.html">here</a> and <a href="http://catholicheritage.blogspot.com/2011/03/mass-for-st-josephs-day-in.html">here</a>. It was also our second pilgrimage in just over a month to one of the few of Ireland's medieval Abby Churches restored to the Worship of God. The other being <a href="https://catholicheritage.blogspot.com/2018/05/pilgrimage-to-holy-cross-abbey-2018.html">Holy Cross Abbey, Co. Tipperary</a>.<br />
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<br />Pilgrimages Committeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10801687451191548487noreply@blogger.comDuiske Abbey, Main St, Graiguenamanagh, Co. Kilkenny, Ireland52.5410742 -6.954870400000004332.8120432 -48.263464400000004 72.270105199999989 34.353723599999995tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3503689522096376739.post-30710175135026994612018-06-05T13:23:00.000+01:002018-06-11T08:58:22.352+01:00Abbeyleix (Walsh)The following is from Fr. Thomas Walsh's <em>History of the Irish Hierarchy</em>, published in New York in 1854, chapter lviii, at p. 615:<br />
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Abbey Leix on the river Nore and in the barony of Cullinagh. This abbey was founded in honor of the Virgin Mary<br />
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AD 1183 by Corcheger O More. The monks were brought thither from the Cistercian abbey of Baltinglass.<br />
AD 1421 the 7th of May a great slaughter was made near this abbey by O More of the retinue of Lord Ormond then lord lieutenant of Ireland Twenty seven of the English were cut off the chief of whom were Purcell and Grant. Ten persons of superior rank were made prisoners and two hundred others were saved by flying to this monastery. No counties in Ireland were more dearly purchased by the English adventurers than the King's and Queen's .The O Moores were engaged more than sixty years in deadly conflict with the invaders.<br />
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The lands of this abbey, 1227, acres were granted by lease for thirty seven years to Thomas, Earl of Ormond at the yearly rent of 6 16s 8d and afterwards at their reversion at an increased rent of 10 5s. The family of Ormond have profited much by their fidelity to the English government. The Duke of Ormond, so celebrated in the Irish annals of the seventeenth century, obtained enormous grants of lands tithes and impropriations. The book of the exiled Nicholas French, Bishop of Ferns, called the Unkind Deserter, has unmasked the cause of the Duke's treachery to the cause of his king and country. This tract is at present extremely rare as the family of the Duke, in order to keep to themselves the secrets which it divulged, purchased at any price wherever they could find it such an obnoxious piece of evidence. Similar has been the prudence of English parsons in buying up from Catholic booksellers Cobbett's History of the Reformation. A trace of the abbey of Leix is not to be found. It seems that its ruins were as cutting as the Unkind Deserter.Catholic Heritage Associationhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16931529213337535429noreply@blogger.comKnocknamoe, Abbeyleix, Co. Laois, Ireland52.9152801 -7.347892300000012333.1862551 -48.656486300000012 72.6443051 33.960701699999987