School: Slane (B.) (roll number 4851)

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   “Slane is a very beautiful and ancient place and there is much history in connection with it.”

   

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   Slane is a very beautifal and ancient place and there is much history in connection with it.
   Before the advent of St. Patrick, what is now only a small village was then a city of many fine buildings. The hill of Slane situated in the North East of the Co. Meath and about half a mile from the village of Slane is famous in the worlds history as being the site whereon the paschal fire was lighted by St. Patrick in the year 433 A.D. there are also the ruins of an old Franciscan monastry here supposed to be a twelfth century building and destroyed by Cromwell in his onslaught on Ireland. To the North West of these lies the famous moat where the body of King Slanus is buried. Tradition has it that although buried about 1500 B.C. his body lies intact in the cist or Sepulchre the opening to which faces south east. The mound is in a perfect state of presentation as it was missed by the invaders of 960 A.D.
   Outside the village and in Slane Castle demense there are the ruins of the hermitage of St. Erc along the river Boyne, he is the patron St of Slane and was famous for his hospitality to travellers and his collection of goose eggs.
   The hermitage is about 4000 years of age according to the opionions of Prof McAllisters and Mr Leask of the ancient monuments department Dublin. Local tradition has it that on one occasion two travellers called to

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   History Edit

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Robert Tallon

   Gender

   Male