Seven Wonders of Fore
The Abbey is also noted for what local populations call its seven wonders:
- The monastery built upon the bog.
- The mill without a race (Lough Lene water flows from the hill).
- The water that flows uphill.
- The tree that has three branches/the tree that won’t burn.
- The water that doesn’t boil.
- The anchorite in a cell
- The lintel-stone raised by St. Fechin’s prayers.
Another important aspect of Fore is the Fore Crosses one of which is in the village of Fore. There are 18 crosses; some crosses are plain (most likely to wind and rain erosion) whilst others still remain carved. These are spread out over 7 miles on roadways and in fields and bore witness to religious persecution during penal times.
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Famous quotes containing the words wonders and/or fore:
“We that are bound by vows and by promotion,
With pomp of holy sacrifice and rites,
To teach belief in good and still devotion,
To preach of heaven’s wonders and delights—
Yet, when each of us in his own heart looks,
He finds the God there far unlike his books.”
—Fulke Greville (1554–1628)
“It was the most wild and desolate region we had camped in, where, if anywhere, one might expect to meet with befitting inhabitants, but I heard only the squeak of a nighthawk flitting over. The moon in her first quarter, in the fore part of the night, setting over the bare rocky hills garnished with tall, charred, and hollow stumps or shells of trees, served to reveal the desolation.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)