The bell and the written record. Follow the records, people, objects and places from this period. This is a growing selection from the research.
Henry Mulholland, remembered as a keeper of the bell, died in January 1817. Later accounts describe the recovery of the bell and its shrine from an oak box.
Source: William Reeves, “On the Bell of St Patrick,” Transactions of the Royal Irish Academy, vol. 27; James O’Laverty, Diocese of Down and Connor, vol. III.Reeves’s Ecclesiastical Antiquities of Down, Connor and Dromore records the bell, its inscription and accounts of the keepers. His printed work is an important trail into the earlier registers.
Source: William Reeves, “On the Bell of St Patrick,” Transactions of the Royal Irish Academy, vol. 27 (1877), pp. 11–24; Armagh registers.James O’Laverty’s account of Drummaul brings together accounts of the bell and the Mulhollans. His work is a source for later family tradition.
Source: James O’Laverty, An Historical Account of the Diocese of Down and Connor, vol. III (1884), pp. 321–325.