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1. Hermit Island

   

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   I got the following story from my grandmother Mrs Mary McDermott who resides at Doon.
   Hermit Island is in the centre of Lough Key it is a wooded island and it contains a little over an acre of land. Up to two or three hundred years ago the island was called Bada (?) Island. There is a story told locally about how the name changed from Bada island to Hermit Island.
   During the Cromwellian period Boyle town did not escape the ravages and destruction of Cromwell's Insiders.
   At this time, too, Boyle Abbey was occupied by the Cistercian monks. The story relates that the abbey was attacked by Cromwell's soldiers. The monks were taken unawares and all the monks with the exception of one were killed. This monk escaped to Bada Island where he build a hermitage. The hermitage consisted of one large cell together with two smaller ones in which he kept his fuel and food. The large cell was where he and prayed. Here the monk lived amidst the trees and ferns. In all that was around he saw the work of God

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      1. seanchas áitiúil, dinnseanchas (~10,595)

   Teanga

   Béarla

   Bailitheoir

   Thomas Mc Dermott

   Inscne

   Fireann

   Seoladh

   Doon, Co. Ros Comáin

   Faisnéiseoir

   Mrs Mary Mc Dermott

   Inscne

   Baineann

   Aois

   77

   Seoladh

   Doon, Co. Ros Comáin