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TEA AND COFFEE ~ LARGE CAR PARK ADJACENT TO CHURCH FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT ETHEL @ 086 1717727 OR E-MAIL LIZ [email protected] 2 CHURCH REVIEW ChurCh of Ireland unIted dIoCeses CHURCH REVIEW of dublIn and GlendalouGh ISSN 0790-0384 The Most Reverend John R W Neill, M.A., L.L.D. Archbishop of Dublin and Bishop of Glendalough, Church Review is published monthly and Primate of Ireland and Metropolitan. usually available by the first Sunday. Please order your copy from your Parish by annual sub scription. €40 for 2010 AD. POSTAL SUBSCRIIPTIIONS//CIIRCULATIION Archbishop’s Lette r Copies by post are available from: Charlotte O’Brien, ‘Mountview’, The Paddock, Enniskerry, Co. Wicklow. E: [email protected] T: 086 026 5522. The cost is the subscription and JUNE 2010 appropriate postage. COPY DEADLIINE FOR A WHILE, I have been concerned about an aspect of public All editorial material MUST be with the worship that I want to share with you. However across the last few Editor by 15th of the preceeding month, weeks, several parishioners and some clergy have actually approached no matter what day of the week. Material me concerning the same issue – it is the issue of noise in church. should be sent by Email or Word attachment. It may seem very old-fashioned to say that we should prepare ourselves for worship quietly, and be in our seats in time for this very purpose, but it remains VIIEWS EXPRESSED of great value to follow this custom. Views expressed in the Church Review are Sadly, the noise level of chatter in some churches is such that nobody could those of the contributor and are not relax, let alone pray. During the administration of Holy Communion, I have been necessarily those of the Editor or Church shocked not only to hear chatter, but even laughter. On one occasion recently, Review Committee. I had to ask three times for silence for the prayers following Holy Communion. EDIITOR In some churches, the choir wish to practice before the liturgy begins, and this is understandable, but here again this should never continue in the last ten The Revd. Nigel Waugh, The Rectory, Delgany, minutes beforehand. Sometimes the organ is played softly before worship and Greystones, Co. Wicklow. this has a positive effect in setting the mood for worship, and indeed covering T: 01-287 4515. up the inevitable noise as people take their places. However I have even noticed T: 086 1028888. E: [email protected] that in some places when the organ is played during the administration of Holy Communion, and even when the choir sing, the chatter is simply raised in EDIITORIIAL ASSIISTANT volume! On the whole very quiet singing or playing is probably more effective in keeping the noise level down. Noeleen Hogan This is a matter that we should all think about, not only so that we can benefit from being still before God ourselves, but also so that we can encourage others ADVERTISING ADVERTISING to do likewise. In recent years, there has been a growth in many parishes of Advertising details and prices are available informal worship on occasions. Such a trend need not by emailing [email protected] or by play down either the solemnity of worship, or the phoning Charlotte O’Brien on 086 026 importance of a sacred place, but a conscious effort 5522. Copy should be sent to [email protected] or by post to may be required to prevent this occurring. Charlotte O’Brien, ‘Mountview’, The Paddock, Enniskerry, Co. Wicklow by 15th of the month. CHIIEF REPORTER Garrett Casey, 2 Charter House, † John Dublin & Glendalough: Maynooth, Co. Kildare. M: 087-2356472. Single copies are available from: • The National Bible Society of Ireland, Dawson Street. • The Resource Centre, Holy Trinity Church, Rathmines. COVER STORY: PRIINTIING Joan forsdyke (rathfarnham) was Church Review is Printed in Ireland by commissioned diocesan lay Minister DCG Publications Ireland during evensong in Christ Church T: 048-90551811. F: 048-90551812. Cathedral. she is pictured here with ChurCh review 3 E: [email protected] members of her family. Céad MIle fáIlte: roMantIC Myths In an old loVe sonG Patrick Comerford ONE SUNNY MORNING, I took the road out from Bunclody towards Enniscorthy, to the junction at Clohamon, where a beautiful multi- arched bridge crosses the River Slaney. Turning right, a long, straight road climbs up Ryland Hill to sleepy Kilmyshall. At the crest of the hill, a rusting gate to the right leads into a long sloping field. All that indicates that there is more to see in the clump of trees beyond is a battered cross left: behind the low, rubble-stone walls, among the trees and growth in a field on top of the gate. outside bunclody, is the old graveyard and monastic settlement of Kilmyshall. The field is difficult to cross when winter right: looking down at the bridge at Clohamon and across the slaney Valley mud sticks to your shoes, and difficult to cross from the graveyard in Kilmyshall. in summer when full of growing crops. But hidden behind the low, rubble-stone walls, in the cluster of trees and growth, is an old disused graveyard, with its graves collected around a holy well and the site of a ruined church and an ancient monastic settlement. Here too is the grave of a woman whose love story is said to have inspired one of the great Irish love songs – a song that has given us the much-loved phrase that characterises Irish hospitality: Céad Mille Fáilte. ancient monastic site The monastic settlement at Kilmyshall probably dates back to the pre-Norman or Celtic church – perhaps as early as the seventh century – and was linked to the neighbouring monastic site of Saint Colman’s in Templeshanbo. The parish of Templeshanbo covered much of north-west Co Wexford, including Kilmyshall and Bunclody, until the mid- left: saint Colman’s Church of Ireland Parish Church, templeshanbo… the 18th century, and the Precentor of Ferns parish of templeshanbo included Kilmyshall and bunclody until the mid-18th Cathedral was the rector. century. right: an unnamed gravestone with an early cross… one of the The rectangular site at Kilmyshall covers treasures of Kilmyshall. about an acre of ground, all within this one large field on the brow of the hill. The ruins of Donal Spaineach’s son, Sir Morgan Kavanagh, Saint Mary Magdalene. Overlooking it are two the former church lie near the eastern end of was a leader in the 1641 Rebellion and was a splendid Hornbeam or Yoke Elm trees, one of the cemetery. This church was 18 feet wide and colonel in the army of the Confederation of which is over 600 years old. 30 feet long, and was still standing in the mid- Kilkenny when he was killed in the battle of There are 541 identified gravestones on the 16th century. Ballinvegga, near New Ross, on Saint Patrick’s site, of which 246 bear inscriptions. The earliest The ancient churchyard was the burial ground Day 1643. Sir Morgan’s sons, Daniel and is the grave of Mary Brenan, dated 14 August of the McMurrough Kavanagh family of nearby Charles, fought for the Confederation in their 1709. Another early stone marks the grave of Clonmullen Castle. Donal Spaineach (Spanish father’s regiment until they were defeated by Michael Comerford who died in 1719. Donal) Kavanagh of Clonmullen, a leader in the Cromwell’s forces. Three later stones – Judith Murphy (1788) Nine Years’ War in the 1590s, was still regarded The Holy Well in the centre of the cemetery Miles Moor (1791) and Catherine Nowlan (1797) as a rebel when he was killed in 1631. In his will, is still venerated locally. The well was originally – are fine examples of the work of a local noted he stipulated that “he be buried in Kilmeashall,” dedicated to Saint Colman of Templeshanbo sculptor, James Byrne, with striking images of the and his grave lies within the ruined church. and Kilmacduagh, but was later rededicated to Crucifixion, some showing Christ triumphant from left: the holy Well in Kilmyshall was originally named after saint Colman of templeshanbo, but was later rededicated to saint Mary Magdalene; there are 541 gravestones in Kilmyshall… the grave of Mary brenan (1709) is the oldest with an inscription; the grave said to be the last resting place of eileen aroon in Kilmyshall dates from 1717; the grave of Michael Comerford (1719), one of the oldest gravestones in Kilmyshall, is from the same time as the grave of “eileen aroon”; the gravestone of Judith Murphy (1788)… a fine example of the crucifixions that are a hallmark of the work of sculptor James byrne. 4 ChurCh review Photographs: Patrick Comerford from left: the Comerford family from bunclody was buried in Kilmyshall from the 18th century; a fragment of a doorway in the western gable of the Church of Ireland parish church (rebuilt 1815) is all that remains of saint Colman’s Monastery in templeshanbo; the village of templeshanbo has all but disappeared, apart from the former school, the post office and saint Colman’s Church; the eileen aroon festival takes place each year in bunclody in late July and early august.