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School: Mainistir na Toirbhirte, Baile an Mhuilinn (roll number 3655)

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Milltown, Co. Kerry
Teacher:
An Br. Ó Drisceoil
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0434, Page 279

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    were coming home very disappointed when they heard sweet music coming from a rock near Irrelagh. They told McCarthy and he built the abbey there. Donal McCarthy finished it in the year 1440 and he dedicated it to the "Blessed Trininty".
    Muckross Abbey is built in a very beautiful place. The purple mountains are towering over it and the lakes below it are below it with all the flowering shrubs all around make it so beautiful that it cannot be equalled and no wonder it is called "Beauties Home".
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    History Edit
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Micheál Ó Neill
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Anglesey Mountain, Co. Louth
    Informant
    Miss Mary Scollard
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Abbeylands, Co. Kerry