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School: Ballysadare (C.) (roll number 9922)

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0176, Page 149

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    There is an old Abbey or church about five hundred yards from my home. Kildalough or "Tempul Kildalough" as the people in the neighbourhood call it, is the most interesting object between Ballysodare and Larkhill. The old residents of the neighbourhood say that Kildalough and Killaspugbrone are the two churches first prayed for in Rome which seem to mean that they are the two oldest churches in this part of the country.
    People say Kildalough was an ordinary house of worship. Mass used to be celebrated in it and St Finian was associated with it.
    The interior length of the building was forty three feet and the height of the sidewalls nine and a half
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. objects
      1. man-made structures
        1. historical and commemorative structures (~6,794)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Agnes Mc Loughlin
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Streamstown, Co. Sligo