School: Knockea, Ballysheedy (roll number 6539)
- Location:
- Knockea, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Ml. Fitzgerald
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- The Hill of Knockea or Cnoc Aodha or Cnoc Cae or Mullach Cae.This is the hill from which the Parish gets its name. Said to have been visited by St. Patrick and where a feast had been prepared for him by Loman the King of the district: Where he is said to have met Nessau whom he afterwards made Abbot of Mungret.The site of the original Church of Knockea is still pointed out - at the foot of the north eastern side of the hill.The present Church of Knockea is in the townland of Drombanna and was erected in the year 1822.N.B. Cnoc Aodha or the Hill of Hugh is the present version. Cnoc Cae or Mullach Cae, the older name is said by some to mean the "Hill of fire".
