In 1837 John O’Donovan wrote in the Ordnance Survey Letters that the parish of Dysart was named after St. Maol Tuile ‘whose memory was celebrated at his holy wells (WM025-109—-) in the glebe about 30 years ago on the 28th or 29th of May’ (OSL vol. 1, 152). The Martyrology of Donegal recorded the 29th of May as the feast day of Maoltuile whose ‘baculus [or pastoral staff] works miracles on perjurers before they go out of the church. His well, and his yellow bell and his baculus and his statue, are there still. This is the first Maoltuile’ (O’Donovan 1864, 445). The Martyrology of Donegal lists the 30th of July as the feast day of the second ‘Maoltuile, son of Nochar’ (ibid.).
156232,WX00418,HICR,WX012-006—-,WEXFORD,BALLINATRAY LOWER,R146387,719111,656738,52.648748929999996,-6.239717040000000,Cross – High cross,Not indicated,’Stone Cross’,https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CWX012-006—-,Situated on the outer edge of a wooded shelf overlooking the W-E Owenavorragh Stream

Monument Type: Cross – High cross

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