Saint Patrick's Bell

St Patrick’s Bell, the Mulhollands and the Mayogall Connection

Commemorative stone with plaque unveiled at the McKenna homestead, Mayogall, Sunday 15th December 2024

 

The Bell of St Patrick is now located at the National Museum, Dublin.

The Bell was rung at the high mass in Phoenix Park during the Eucharistic Congress in 1932 and at the Papal visit mass in 1979

History and documents below reproduced with kind permission of Thomas McErlean

Google maps location where St Patrick's Bell was found

 

1365

The Archbishop of Armagh

Privilege granted to the nation of O’Mulholland, having the custody of the bell of St Patrick

Cunlad O’Mulholland and his successors, the men of his nation and his subjects in lands or tenements of the bell of St Patrick within the diocese of Armagh are to be exempt from any general interdict pronounced in the name of the archbishop on condition that Cunlad and his successors, by the authority of the bell, will fast upon molestors of the subjects of the archbishop. Cunlad and his successors are not to admit or receive , by his authority or privilege of the bell, any persons excommunicated by the Archbishop.

Termonfeckim

 

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