School: Lios Dubh (B.)
- Location:
- Lisduff, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Proinnsias Mac Cuinn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0119, Page 500
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- (continued from previous page)There is practically no trace of the monastery left if we except the chapel some of the walls of which still stand. It like the one at Killeadan was reactangle in shape being 46 1/2 feet by 19 feet interior [?] The walls were about two feet thick and were built in stone and lime cement. There are some who can tell the period in which a building was made by an examination of the walls. "Dry" walls came at an earlier period than those that had mortar in them. The side walls are some ten feet in height. They were probably higher because the ground round about has been raised by bur [?] This church seems to be altogether devoid [?] of any carved stone work or other ornamentation.
In a corner of the ruins we found a pile of what are evidently human bones. The bones the(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Pádraig Ó Braonáin
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Lisduff, Co. Mayo
