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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0098, Page 491

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    would give him a site for a monastery. Not alone did he give him a site but he helped him to build it of yew trees = Plain of the Yew trees Magh-na-nEo = Mayo.
    The Abbey was destroyed by lightning in 778, burned by the Danes in 818 in 908 and again in 1169 and plundered in 1204 by William de Burgo.
    The Danes were bad enough, were not as bad as the Norsemen who frequently sacked our monasteries. Turgesius 831 is specially mentioned as the terrible Dane who destroyed by fire in contempt of God and of His saints the temple of the church of Mayo which was roofed with lead.
    Again the place was burned
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. events
      1. events (by time of year) (~11,476)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Mary O Toole
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    13
    Address
    Claremorris, Co. Mayo
    Informant
    Dr Maguire
    Gender
    Male
    Occupation
    Dochtúir
    Address
    Claremorris, Co. Mayo