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Conference tallis::celt

Title:Celt Notefile
Moderator:TALLIS::DARCY
Created:Wed Feb 19 1986
Last Modified:Tue Jun 03 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:1632
Total number of notes:20523

76.0. "Post Card Trivia" by MAHLER::DARCY (George Darcy) Fri Sep 12 1986 16:26

    Ballintubber Abbey, Co. Mayo:
    
    Founded 1216 by Cathal O'Connor, King of Connacht
    - Ireland's only Abbey in continuous use for 750 years
    - 276 years old when Columbus discovered America
    - 300 years older than St. Peter's Rome
    - 350 years in use when Shakespeare was born
    
    The name Ballintubber - the townland of St. Patrick's well -
    commemorates an earlier foundation here by St. Patrick in
    the fifth century.  Restoration of the Abbey was completed
    for its 750th anniversary celebrated 1966.
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