Lower coast gazette., 1910-04-16
the grave was also put under the SOC

he grave was also put under the SOD
very soon after.
In the center of MuckrOss abbey
rises one of the greatest II hhes'
ypw trees have ever SEEN us
spreading branches fill the upper por'
ton of the abbey. The trunk CT thl'
tree when stabbed by a knife spe"S
blood and to prevent the tree lioill
destruction by continuous staDDihg Vi
and their guides an iron rail-
ing fortified by barbed wire no" I'll
circles it, more than arms leng'h OIL
Legend says MuckrOss abbey "a'
m~iraculouslv raised to its present
height, and never rooted. A very holE
man of old time who had been guilty.
of sin prayed in the wilderness asking
forgiveness AS a penanCe he was
told to arise and go build an ABBEY al
Skeheenawaya, a place that he hau
never heard Of, and was not permit
ted to inquire for, but must discover
bv accident. Also, he vas to erect the
abbey without the eye of man seeing
il in the process Of building. liz
good man arose and wandered up II
down Ireland for long years seeking
to discover, without questioning
where lay Skeheenawana; and alter
long and tedious journeying he was,
one evening. facing down the klllar'
new valley when he heard a shepherd
boy on one hill calling to a shepherd
boy on a neighbOring hill II the lalter
had seen certain strayed sheep, get
ting the reply, Yes, they are pastur-
ing in Skeheenawava." Delighted, the
old man followed the footsteps or the
, shepherd boy till he came to where
the sheep pastured. This, then, was
Skeheenawava; and with the Anglers
aid that very night began the erection
of the abbey. By daybreak he had got
il as high as the roof, but before he
could roof it the shepherd, going ear
lier on the hills to look for his sheep
saw the structure; then the spell was
broken and the holy man could not
proceed any further. So, 1t Is a'u
the abbey was never rooted.
On the lovely island of lnnlsfallen
in the lower lake Is a monastery whlch
was founded about the sixth century
by st. Finain Cam. Here were VIII
ton the annals of InniSfallen, and
from this island the lower lake gets
the name Of Innisfallen lake. Ion
Moore's sw ct Innisfallen is as wei
known as it is beautiful.
Sweet Innisfallen, fare thee well,
Nav calm and sunshine long be TIME!
How fair thou are let others TELL
To feel how fair shall still be NINE.
. Sweet Innisfallen, fare thee WE'LL
And long may light around thee simle'
AS soft as on that evening fell
| When first | saw thy fairy Isle.
} Th9rp was one time an abbot OF In
1 installer, a very holy man name'
Cuddy. who became troubled in min
4 because he could not cOmprehen'
y eternity, where a thousand years ar
e as one day. On a beautiful morning
S Of Nav he wandered from his monas
h terry and in a remote place knelt MI
= down to pray with all his heart tina
O God might give him enlightenment
The flowers of May were bloomlh
n around him and the trees drooplh
a .beir green boughs above his hea'
and as he prayed a bird in the tire
began piping a song whose sweetneS
far surpassed anything he had eve
heard ON earth before. Momentarl
IN distracted from his prayer, he near
- ened to the raviShing song or u
bird. Next moment, upbraidlng Ill
in self for allowing his mind to wand
even for a second from God, he won
% resume his interrupted prayer. b
10, all around him was deep snow, al
in snow. too, burdened the ahe
branches of the trees OVerheau' ioi
was the depth of winter. Amazed
,e. rose to his feet. He saw the track
his knees worn in the rock on "hl
III he had knelt. He dazedly wended |
in wav hack to the monastery. at [
door of which he was greeted ny
as old monk whom he had never Sc
"a before. All the monks who gather'
wandering, around him inside we
Ia strange to him likewise. "Who .
. vou?" they inquired. And he SAID:
81 am the abbot of this monaster,
Fps Rut a g~ray-haired man was sho'
III him as the abbot.
nm He said that he had gone forth 1T
the monastery less than an hour
n nray-and the monks Tn
oe' heads oyer him. When he gave IN
ate his name it was discovered mat
obnot of that name had gone u IT
led this monastery on a May morning
wears before and never returned
been heard of since. linen 'ne III
nr.t,tion of it all flashed upon the
Toe, man He told the wondering mo!
!, his story. God, in his greatness
TINS shown him how that centu'
no could be as one second, and 1t was
longer an incomprehensible mys1
III that a thousand years might be as
dav He was shrived and happy
oou isfed and pleased. He passed
.es' that eternity which he had peen
ra~culously given to compreheno'