School: Clochar na Trócaire, Maghcromtha
- Location:
- Macroom, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Na Siúracha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0341, Page 280
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- (continued from previous page)was open to every sort of outrage and desecration", writes Brash. Walls, windows, tombs, nave, choir, carvings, and decorations[?] were all in a ruinous state. Everything was on the verge of disgraceful breakdown. A subscription was raised by Mr Windele.
The choir and nave were cleared; fallen walls were built up in both, Windows were strengthened, doors were put into the nave and crypt - to bat unwelcome trespassers; the crypt arching (which carried the choir) was secured and only just in time. Fragments of columns, capitals, bases, mouldings were built into the face of the new walling - to preserve them and enable them to be seen.
An Admirable Achievement
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Father Buckley supplied the necessary materials, so that the subscribed money might go to pay the wages of the workmen employed. This shows us what(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Bridget Desmond
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Coolacoosane, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Kitty O' Connell
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Dromcarra North, Co. Cork
