Identifier: journalofroyalso1899roya (find matches)
Title: Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland
Year: 1849 (1840s)
Authors: Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland. Transactions Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland. Proceedings and transactions Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland. Proceedings and papers
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Publisher: Dublin, Ireland : The Society
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
Digitizing Sponsor: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center

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. Columba, according to his prophecy to rise to eternal life. In Book III., chap. 9 tells of the soul of a blacksmith carried off to heaven byangels. This Columb Coilrigin lived in the central portion of Ireland— In Mediter-ranea Scotise. In Book i., chap. 3, which I have quoted above, Durrow is thusdescribed:—In Mediterranea HibemieB parte monasterium quod Scotice diceturDair-mag. 232 ROYAL SOCIETY OF ANTIQUARIES OF IRELAND. I dont think I could conclude with an incident better calculated toleave on your minds a pleasing impression of life in ancient times inIrish monasteries, or a narrative better calculated to give us a lofty-idea of the character of him who founded Durrow moie than 1300 yearsago. I can best comment on it by using the words of the prophecyascribed to St. Patrick, and said to have been uttered, concerningSt. Columba, one Imndred years before his birth, that there shoulddescend of ffergus one who, for sweetness of life and hospitality, wouldprove a very good man.
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Termon of Di ( 233 ) SOME RESIDENTS OE MONKSTOWN IN THEEIGHTEENTH CENTURY. BY FRANCIS ELRINGTON BALL, M.R.LA., Fellow. (Read November 29, 1898.) Tn order to realize the appearance of Monkstown in the last century wemust picture to ourselves a thinly peopled and rural tract of country,bordered by a rocky and barren shore, and approached by roads, which,from their condition, and from the footpads, who frequented them, werealike dangerous and disagreeable to the traveller. The parish extendedfrom Blackrock to Dalkey, embracing all the land on which Kiugstownis now built, then called Monkstown Commons,^ and the church was theonly one, save that of Stillorgan, between Dublin and Bray, and servednot alone for the residents in Monkstown, but also for those in the paiishesof Dalkey, Killiney, Kill, and Tully.^ Of the history of Monkstown Dr. Stokes has told us much in hisinimitable papers on The Antiquities from Kingstown to Dublin,^ butthe basis for this paper is a document, which had not th

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