School: Clochar na Trócaire, Ceannanus Mór
- Location:
- Kells, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Máthais Íde
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0702, Page 288
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- In Kilmainham, a town-land lying about one mile south-east of Kells there is a spur of an old monastery. This is the ruins of the monastery of the Knights of St. John of Jerusalem established by the de Lacys in 1211.
These Knights were a half-religious, half military order. Their work was to protect pilgrims and travellers.
The people near the ruins of this monastery say that long ago, there was a tradition that every evening at 7 o'clock a bell was heard to ring in the ruins, and that any people heard it.
- Collector
- Teresa Morris
- Gender
- Female
