Kilcrumreragh – Stories from a Sacred Landscape

A Westmeath Old Rail Trail Audio Guide

Kilcrumreragh – Stories from a Sacred Landscape

A Westmeath Old Rail Trail Audio Guide

Discover the story of Kilcrumreragh Monastic Site, County Westmeath.

Welcome to Stories from a Sacred Landscape: Kilcrumreragh Monastic Site, part of our series of Old Rail Audio Guides produced with Westmeath County Council. Kilcrumreragh Monastic Site, better known locally as Kill, is a truly ancient holy site with a long and fascinating history.

It is located beside a bubbling stream, 1½ km south of Rosemount in County Westmeath, close to the Old Rail Trail, which is the greenway linking Athlone and Mullingar. Today it is a quiet church ruin, surrounded by a peaceful graveyard.

In this audio guide, you will journey through time, as we hear stories that stretch back millennia. You will explore the archaeology of the prehistoric remains both here at Kill and on the nearby hill of ‘Knockastia’ where a Bronze Age cemetery was excavated by Harvard University in the 1930s. You will discover the stories of Kill Monastic Site and its connection to the great monastic city of Clonmacnoise. And you will meet some of the characters now resting here in the graveyard.

We hope you enjoy your journey of discovery here at Kilcrumreragh. The community of Rosemount bids you Cead Míle Fáilte!

Title: Stories from a Sacred Landscape Kilcrumreragh Monastic Site

Duration: 44 mins.

Summary:
Hear the stories of this ancient burial ground and meet some of the characters buried here. You can enjoy our audio guides anywhere, from the comfort of your favourite chair, or download to enjoy while you’re out and about. Simply hit play to Discover the Stories of Ireland.

Kilcrumreragh – Stories from a Sacred Landscape Audio Guide

This audio guide is an Abarta Heritage Produced on behalf of Westmeath County Council, National Roads Office. It was recorded at Bluebird Studios with sound engineer Declan Lonergan and producer Róisín Burke. The script was written by Bryn Coldrick and performed by Sharon Mannion with Gerry O’Brien and Bryn Coldrick. Special thanks to Rosemount National School, principal Karena Kavanagh and the children who performed the folklore stories; James Henson, Kate Mowlin, Adam Kerrigan and Ella Geoghan.

Thanks are also due to Westmeath County Council’s Heritage Officer, Melanie McQuade, and Tourism Officer Una Doris and National Roads Office Public Liaison Officer Elva Roe, as well as to local historian Fr Jimmy Murray whose book Kilcrumreragh: Rosemount Churches Past & Present provided much of the source material. We’d also like to thank Jimmy Keane for his assistance and the Rosemount Community who recorded the headstone transcriptions in the graveyard and continue to look after this special place.

We hope you have enjoyed listening to the story of Kill Monastic Site and its people. If you would like to learn more about this place and the local area, just search “Rosemount History and Heritage” on YouTube for a wonderful video presented by Fr Murray himself. Or find a direct link here.

This is one of four audio guides and books that have been produced for sites along the Old Rail Trail Cycle Way in County Westmeath. Other guides and books that are part of this series are: Crosswood Bog Audio Book, Streamstown Station Audio Guide and The Unsilent Stones Audio Book. These can all be accessed for free on our website and podcast channels.

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