<p>PS: and there are examples in the National Museum in Dublin.</p>
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<p>Celtic missionary monks carried bells in the 5th C. The Irish Gaelic word for bell, clog, has come into English as clock presumably as early clocks had/were a bell.</p>
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<div><p class="MsoNormal">I was asked this morning if I knew which is the oldest Christian bell. Apparently it is one cast in Spain in 815 and is presently in Cincinnati. Is this correct? If not, which is the oldest Christian Bell?<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Peter Humphreys<u></u><u></u></p></div>
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