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Bangor
Bangor, founded as a monastery on the south shore of Belfast Lough by St Comgall in the middle of the 6th century and presided over by him for 50 years. Among his monks were two who established a name for themselves elsewhere, St Moluag of Lismore, prominent in the west of Scotland, and the more famous Columbanus of Bobbio, whose Life by Jonas is the earliest source of information on Comgall. Among its early abbots was Mosinu moccu Min, author of a short computistical tract that survives. From the late 7th century there survives the Antiphonary of Bangor, an important witness to the hymns of the early Irish church, which includes a poem on the abbots of Bangor. Parallels between one text of the difficult Latin verse known as the Hisperica famina and passages in the Antiphonary have led to the suggestion that Bangor was one of the schools where this exotic Latin culture flourished. Until the mid‐8th century the Annals of Ulster take a considerable interest in the leaders of the religious community at Bangor, giving rise to the inference that early collections of annals were assembled at Bangor to form the major collection that underlies the Annals of Ulster and other extant collections (see annals) for the period down to that date.
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"Bangor." The Oxford Companion to Irish History. 2007. Encyclopedia.com. 31 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "Bangor." The Oxford Companion to Irish History. 2007. Encyclopedia.com. (May 31, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O245-Bangor.html "Bangor." The Oxford Companion to Irish History. 2007. Retrieved May 31, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O245-Bangor.html |
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Bangor
Bangor , town (1991 pop. 70,750), North Down dist., E Northern Ireland, on Belfast Lough. It is a seaport, resort, and yachting center (site of an annual regatta), with some light industry. The Elizabethan Bangor Castle is in the town along with the remains of an abbey founded c.555 by St. Comgall and destroyed by the Danes in the 9th cent. Rebuilt in 1120, it was taken over by Franciscans in 1469. The missionary abbey was dissolved in 1542. |
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"Bangor." The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. 2011. Encyclopedia.com. 31 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "Bangor." The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. 2011. Encyclopedia.com. (May 31, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-BangorIr.html "Bangor." The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. 2011. Retrieved May 31, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-BangorIr.html |
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