placenamesTracton
Trácht Fhionn
Lewis preserved an earlier account of devotion to a reputed relic at the abbey.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Trácht Fhionn · Irish · main form · validated name
- Tracton · English · main form
Place & story
Holy Thursday at Tracton
In his 1837 Tracton account, Samuel Lewis repeated Dr Smith’s report of an annual Holy Thursday pilgrimage to the abbey. Pilgrims came to venerate a fragment believed to be from the cross of Christ. The account attributed its presentation to Barry Oge and described its veneration before the suppression of the monasteries. This records a historical religious tradition and belief in a relic; it does not authenticate the fragment or establish that the gathering continued in Lewis’s own time. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Tracton. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Tracton: A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.