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School: Clochar na Trócaire, Maghcromtha

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Macroom, Co. Cork
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0341, Page 363

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    explanation of the fact that so many of the famous schools of the early days of the Irish Church were to be found adjacent to the rivers that traversed the country.
    Along the Shannon and in the vicinity of its banks the great monastic institutions of Mungret, Iniscaltra, Birr, Clonfert, Clonmacnois, Durrow and Rahan were located. This same circumstance led to the fact that when the marauding Danes descended on our coasts, the religious establishment along the navigable rivers were so often attacked and plundered.
    St Finbarr built his primitive church on one of the little islands of the great marsh.
    St Finbarr's Protestant Cathedral now occupies the site of Finbarr's original foundation.
    A Danish settlement had grown up around the School of Cork towards the middle of the ninth century. The inquirer
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Peggy O' Connell
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    An Drom Réidh, Co. Cork
    Informant
    Con Sullivan
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    An Drom Réidh, Co. Cork