Scoil: Tulach Sheasta, Clochair na Trócaire

Ar an leathanach seo

1. The Old Mass Houses (ar lean)

   

   Roinn Roinn Postáil

   (ar lean ón leathanach roimhe)

   were two of these - one at Toor and the other in Foildarrig near the "Four Roads". The Church at Foildarrig was called Kilpatrick or "Patrick's Church" possiby because it was dedicated to St. Patrick. It stood in Michael Bourke's field near the old fort. It was 30 ft long, 17ft wide and 10 feet high. The walls were of stone and mortar and were 3ft 3ins thick. This was the Church built by the Catholics to replace the one seized by the Protestants at Kilnerath. It was a substantial building and must have served its purpose for almost 200 years. Fragments of the walls were standing in 1840 when O'Donovan visited it but the cemetery which was beside it effaced and the land tilled up to the very walls of the Church. It is said that Albert Lee of Barna House took the stones of the old building soon after O'Donovan's visit to build some houses in his farmyard where they stand to day. Not a trace remains now of this Church of Kilpatrick, even the exact spot on which it stood cannot be pointed out with certainty.

   + Mile north west of the village of Newport

   

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   Stair Athraigh

   Teanga

   Béarla

   Faisnéiseoir

   Rev. Patrick J. Lee

   Inscne

   Fireann