Wrong hymn-sheet on the Rock

ON Sunday last, September 14, the Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, I was driving home from a holiday in West Kerry.

Wrong hymn-sheet on the Rock
Sat, 20 Sep, 2003 - 01:00

I stopped as has been my practice for several years now at the Rock of Cashel, Co Tipperary, to say a few prayers at the site of the massacre of September 13, 1647.

The Rock of Cashel is of great significance in the history of Munster, and of Ireland generally, in secular and ecclesiastical terms.

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CourtsYour ViewPlace: west KerryPlace: Rock of Cashel, Co TipperaryPlace: Rock of CashelPlace: MunsterPlace: IrelandPlace: CashelPlace: DublinPlace: ToledoPlace: SpainPlace: RomePlace: ViocáirePlace: Dun LaoghairePlace: Rock of Cashel, Brú BórúPlace: Séamas de BarraPlace: Beaufort Downs, Rathfarnham Village, DublinPerson: MurroughPerson: O'BrienPerson: Lord InchiquinPerson: CórlainnePerson: Theobald StapletonPerson: Miler MagrathPerson: ArchbishopPerson: CASHELPerson: Maol Mhuire Mac CraithEvent: Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy CrossEvent: massacre of September 13Event: 1647Event: Cashel MassacreOrganisation: Vicars ChoralOrganisation: DuchasOrganisation: Heritage CouncilOrganisation: Hall of the Vicars ChoralOrganisation: Séipéal ChormaicOrganisation: Teampall CormaicOrganisation: ConventualOrganisation: Comhaltas Ceoltóiri Éireann
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