School: Screen (roll number 9679)
- Location:
- Screen, Co. Wexford
- Teacher: Cáit Ní Mhurchadha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0885, Page 206
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“St Ibar, founder and patron of the ancient monastery...”
(continued from previous page)latter was a foreigner.Ibar or Iubhar means a yew-tree, probably called after a great sacred yew-tree, which grew on the island. (name of saint forgotten)Inis Iubhar, island of the yew-tree.
( Name of island survived tree and hermit.)
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“The Monastery and school on Bergin were many times plundered by the Danes.”
The monastery and school on Begerin were many times plundered by the Danes.
The annals record the death of two abbots Diarmuid in 884 and Cruinmeal in 964.
It is stated that a wooden statue of "St Iubhar" was held in veneration and preserved on the scene of his labours in 1662. Easboc Iubhair seemed to have been an ecclesiastical title - Bishop of Iubhar.St Iubhar was St. Abban's uncle and tutor.