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Luíochán Chill Mhichíl To be transcribed
Fionnbarra Naofa To be transcribed
Paidreacha To be transcribed
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Toibreacha Beannaithe To be transcribed
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Scéalta Crábhaidh To be transcribed
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Scéal Eile To be transcribed
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Beatha Barrae Ó Chorcaigh To be transcribed
The Life of Barry of Cork To be transcribed
Paidreacha na nDaoine To be transcribed
Comhagall idir an mBás agus an tOthar To be transcribed
St Gobnait's Beehive Transcribed
Saint Gobnait of Ballyvourney Transcribed
The Assault on Carrigaphooca Castle Transcribed
An Ancient Battle-Field near Macroom To be transcribed
The Macroom of 1824 Transcribed
St Gobnait of Ballyvourney Transcribed
Cath Mhaigh Chromtha To be transcribed
Carrigadrohid Castle To be transcribed
Martyred at Carrigadrohid To be transcribed
Cromwell's Hatred of the Mass To be transcribed
Lord Broghill To be transcribed
Caisleán Charraig an Droichid To be transcribed
Kilcreagh Abbey To be transcribed
Famous Stones of the South To be transcribed
Carrigadrohid Castle To be transcribed
Inniscarra - The Parting Place To be transcribed
The Blessed Bowl To be transcribed
St Aban's Mound near Ballymakeera To be transcribed
Kilcreagh Abbey To be transcribed
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St Gobnait's Beehive (continued)
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It was at a place now known as Ballyvourney that she eventually came upon the sleeping deer, and there she consecrated her life to God and became renowned for heroic penances. The monastery she caused to be erected by St. Abban, of Slievemangry,who made her its abbess in recognition of her extraordinary piety.
Tradition says that St. Abban died at Ballyvourney, and that, at the moment of his death one of the nuns of St. Gobnait happened to be so ill that the holy abbess was afraid the "keen" or death-wail raised at his funeral might disturb the poor invalid. As usual, in any difficulty, she had recourse to prayer, so that, wonderful to relate, not one sound of all the crying and wailing outside penetrated the sick-room.
The stone St. Gobnait knelt on as she prayed is still pointed out by the good folk of Ballyvourney who stoutly maintain that anyone standing upon it would not hear even the loudest clap of thunder were it ever so near.
Another miracle of St. Gobnait relates to Gurteen-na-plagha, in the parish of Ballyvourney. The literal meaning of the name is the
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