School: Piercetown (B.) (roll number 4990)
- Location:
- Piercetown, Co. Wexford
- Teacher: Maitiú Ó Cléirigh
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0879, Page 315
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Piercetown (B.)
- XML Page 315
- XML “Saints Abban and Ibar”
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
- (continued from previous page)plundered by the Danes in A.D. 819. It was the first place along the coast to come under their barbarous clutches.A Cromwellian adventurer that settled in Wexford, tells us that in the ruins of Saint Ibar's church, there was a wooden image of the Saint. The people of Wexford made frequent pilgrimages to this ruin, and settled any disputes that might arise amongst them by oath, before the image.
Saint Abban shared much of the missionary work of Saint Ibar and accompanied him on a journey to Rome. He founded many monasteries throughout Wexford, chiefly one in Ross. His place of retirement was the church of Saint Stephen, New Ross. Saint Abban is buried in Adamstown.
(Got information in Piercetown N. S.)
Peter Murphy,
Ballyfinogue,
Killinick.
- Collector
- Peter Murphy
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballyfinoge Great, Co. Wexford
