School: Clonard (roll number 16067)
- Location:
- Clonard, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Séamus Ó Fithcheallaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0694, Page 186
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- (continued from previous page)Teresa Casserly
Ardnamullen
Clonard.
- The Clonard Monastic SchoolSaint Finian established a monastery between the protestant church and the main road in the year 520. The ruins of this monastery is not to be seen now, except the heights and hollows in the field. There is nothing left of this old monastery now except a bapismal font and a square trough. This baptismal font is in the Protestant church. It is made of grey limestones. It is three feet high and it stands on a square pedestal. The top of it is covered with decorations and figures cut out of stone. The principal figure is that of a bishop with a crozier, is supposed to be Saint Finian. A square trough was also found. This is not decorated. It is two feet, two inches long by one foot seven inches, and it is fifteen inches deep. It remained buried in the grave yard near the present churchs untill a couple of years ago. There is a story told about it that if geese or fowl drank the water out of it, they would immediately die. It is said that this trough was full of water all the times.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Teresa Casserly
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ardnamullan, Co. Meath
