hy-connell

Updated: May 9, 2025

So they chose her then and there for their patroness, and she blessed them with many blessings, which are fulfilled unto this day; and when she migrated to the Lord they gave her all the land, and her nuns hold it to this day, the land of Hy-Connell on the east Shannon bank, at the roots of Luachra mountain. What a picture! One hopes that it may be true, for the sake of its beauty and its pathos.

Charles Kingsley - The Roman and the Teuton : A Series of Lectures delivered before the University of Cambridge

But it matters much that she should have been such a person, that such a story as this, when told of her, should have gained belief: How the tribes of Hy-Connell, hearing of her great holiness, came to her with their chiefs, and offered her all the land about her cell.

Charles Kingsley - The Roman and the Teuton : A Series of Lectures delivered before the University of Cambridge