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School: Mullagh (C )

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Mullagh, Co. Cavan
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1003, Page 157

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  1. St Kilian

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    Mullagh considers it a proud honour that St. Kilian, one of the greatest of Irish saints, was born in the parish. It is not absolutely certain that he was a native of Mullagh but tradition has clung to that fact for centuries and no other place has claimed him and some very old verses point to the fact that he was born on the banks of the Borora, in the year 640.

    "Nursed beneath an Irish mountain by an Irish mother's hand
    Where the mild Borora whispers to the meadows of the land,
    Taught the music of the harper and the anthems of the blest,
    Cillian grew as grows the ash-tree by the ruins of the west.
    * * *
    Winter stars, that light in splendour Eire's calm and solemn sky,
    Might have borrowed their chaste
    (continues on next page)
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Language
    English
    Collector
    May Clarke
    Gender
    Female