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National Cathedral Church of St Patrick in Dublin
Bells on Sunday comes from The National Cathedral Church of St Patrick in Dublin.
Bells on Sunday comes from The National Cathedral Church of St Patrick in Dublin. Legend has it that in 1191 the Archbishop of Dublin, having fallen out with City Provosts and the nearby Priory, decided to build his own cathedral church just outside the city walls on the site of an ancient well supposedly used by Saint Patrick. In 1860’s the Guinness family sponsored a major restoration of the building and in the 1890’s the family also donated a new peal of ten bells. Today there are twelve bells with a Tenor bell weighing forty five and one quarter hundredweight and tuned to the note of C. We hear them ringing the full twelve bells to Plain Hunt Cinques.
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