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St Colmcille's (Irish: Naomh Colmcille) are one of three GAA clubs in Swords, County Dublin, Ireland. The other two Swords clubs are St Finians and Fingallians. The club was founded in 1935, and fields a single junior football team in Division 10 of the Dublin AFL (adult football league). The club's grounds are located at Hollybanks, Glen Ellen ...
St. Colmcille's Boys' National School and St. Colmcille's Girls' National School, both located in the town of Swords, are also named after the Saint as is one of the local gaelic teams, Naomh Colmcille. [33] The Columba Press, a religious and spiritual book company based in Dublin, is named after Colmcille. [34]
Swords (Irish: Sord [N 1] [sˠoːɾˠd̪ˠ] or Sord Cholmcille) in County Dublin, the county town of the local government area of Fingal, is a large suburban town on the east coast of Ireland, situated ten kilometres [10] north of Dublin city centre.
Fingal County Council plan to extend the park eastwards to Balheary Park and westwards into the proposed Swords Regional Park. [10] Balheary Park is east of Applewood at the confluence of the Broadmeadow River and the Ward River. It surrounds Swords Business Campus on three sides and has some playing pitches which are used by St. Colmcille's ...
Called 'the golden-haired' she was a princess and the daughter of King Laoghaire who was baptised by St. Patrick together with her sister St. Fidelma. 11 January [93] Eithne/Etna 6th century Irish Eileach-an-Naoimh, (Garvellach islands, Scotland) The mother of St. Colmcille/Columba [94] Eithne and Sodelb: 6th century Leinster Tech ingen mBóiti
From Nicole Kidman’s erotic thriller “Babygirl,” to a book of sexual fantasies edited by Gillian Anderson, this was the year the female sex drive took the wheel in popular culture.
The staff originates from the ninth century, while a number of often poor and crude refurbishments date from the 12th century and later. [1] It is one of the saint's three well-known relics, the others being his bell-shrine and the well-known 9th century Cathach of St. Columba which was built to contain a 6th century Insular psalter once thought to have been written by Columba himself.
Kilcock takes its name from the 6th century Saint Coca who founded a church beside the Rye River, a major tributary of the River Liffey.The saint is traditionally said to have been a sister of St. Kevin of Glendalough; by occupation, she was an embroiderer of church vestments, including those for St. Colmcille.