Ardclinis - from 'Traveller in the Glens'

The Ardclinis Crozier

An interesting legend is attached to Ardclinis Monastery. According to this, St Kieran, whose community at Layde (across Red Bay) was threatened with starvation, came to the Abbot and asked his prayers, saying that their corn would not be ready for at least another month.
‘A month? echoed the Abbot, ‘See! Your corn is already ripe!’
And when St Kieran looked over across the Bay – there stood the field of corn, turned to a beautiful golden yellow, all ready for the reapers.

It was at Ardclinis, too, that a crozier, called ‘Bachil McKenna’, was for many years in use by local people as a venerated object utilised in the taking of oaths or in the detection of false statements.
Tradition has it that if anyone stole anything from his neighbour, was accused, denied his guilt, and was brought to swear upon the crozier, then if he were really guilty the stolen goods would appear at his feet to compound his perjury. This crosier was taken by a man called Galvin to his home near Glenarm where he used it to hold harness in his stable until someone made him aware of its antiquity and value. Thereafter it occupied an honoured place in his household, and is at present in the possession of the Magill family of the Cairncastle district [since first publication this crozier has been placed in the National Museum in Dublin]. St MacNissius of Connor is said to be buried in Ardclinis.

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