School: Killmallock Convent School
- Location:
- Kilmallock, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: An tSr. Dimpna
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- (continued from previous page)under a pointed arch. The South wall is pierced by six double lancets an inch or two only separating one from the other.The tomb of the White Knight is the only one in the Abbey of its kind. Not far off, broken and neglected is the slab which marks the grave of his descendant, Edmund, the last of the White Knights, who betrayed his kinsman, the Sugan Earl into the hands of Elizabeth's President of Munster.In the north wall of the Choir the following inscription in memory of the three young men who perished in the Battle of Liscarroll in 1642 found ( in Latin of course ) which its translation is:
"Reader this year it grieves my heart to tellIn battle three relations nobly fell.Fighting for King, Religion, Country, Laws,Angels and men approve the glorious cause.Their mangled sides exhibited to view The Vingin's White and martyr's purple hueWell may the herald's in emblematic loreTheir bright achievements blazon o'er and o'erWith dew drops lilies in a purple streamMarble immortalizes each hero's nameThe Brothers ( George and Edward )
The Nephew ( Alexander) Burgate.
In the days of Cromwell the Abbey was dismantled and a priest Rev. d Father Fitzgerald and a lay-brother were killed. During the year 1617 when typhus fever raged in the South of Ireland Kilmallock was badly hit. A person ill of the fever was left-in the ruins of the Abbey lest he'd communicate the infection to the(continues on next page)
