School: Kilmore Convent School
- Location:
- Kilmore, Co. Wexford
- Teacher: Sr. Lorcan Ní Riain
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- (continued from previous page)was pulled down to provide stones wherewith to build the "Church of Ireland" structure - towards which the government gave a grant of £600. It serves as a church for the protestants of Kilmore and Kilturk.
There are two blessed wells in Mulrankin parish, one dedicated to St. Catherine near Mulrankin Castle. and the other at Brideswell, St. Brigids Well is said by the old people to have moved, having been descrated.
The Parish of Mulrankin was dedicated to St. David and the Browne family held the advowson of the church from the 13th Century till 1642.
Tomhaggard as its name implies,means the tomb of Mosacer, when succeeded St Abbain as Abbot of Camaross. He was also patron of Saggart, co. Dublin. The pattern day is March 3rd. The ruins of the Celtic church in the churchyard the little "mass house" at St. Anne's Well and the modern church mark the successive stages of Catholic worship.Margaret Dunne
(age 13) Moortown,
Tomhaggard,
Co. Wexford.
- Collector
- Margaret Dunne
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 13
- Address
- Moortown, Co. Wexford
