This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1891 edition. Excerpt: ...in the fields during the day, and prayed, like his uncle, St. Patrick, during the night; and at his death he was interred in his own church, in the town of Ardagh. The remains of this church prove it to be, if of any height, a most formidable erection. It is enclosed in the churchyard of Ardagh, ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1891 edition. Excerpt: ...in the fields during the day, and prayed, like his uncle, St. Patrick, during the night; and at his death he was interred in his own church, in the town of Ardagh. The remains of this church prove it to be, if of any height, a most formidable erection. It is enclosed in the churchyard of Ardagh, immediately behind the Protestant Church, and the ruins are somewhat considerable, measuring fully thirty feet long by twenty feet broad. It is composed of several immensely large blocks of rock, each fitting one on top of the other, as though chiselled by the stonecutter, although at this time stonecutters were not procurable. Some of these blocks of stones are fully ten feet long, and could not weigh less than some tons. One stone, which hangs on a natural pivot over the entrance, is likely from its apparently dangerous position, and the rocking which ensues on the slightest touch, to cause the visitor some uneasiness as to how to enter the building; and yet old men will tell him that that very stone has hung in that very position during their own and their sires' recollections, and has never stirred either in storm or sunshine. The entrance-door to this most venerable ruin is low, and the few windows extant are of the lancet description common to such buildings in old times, when the art of glazing was unknown; and yet, this is the old Cathedral of Ardagh, and underneath are interred the remains of the first bishop of its diocese, and several saints of Holy Church. History does not contain any reference to the monastery erected in Ardagh, except that, in 488, St.Melchuo, a friar of the monastery of Lerha, and a brother to St. Mel, became abbot and bishop of the diocese. We find in Colgan's " Acta Sanct0rum" it is...
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