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Slane
("Be Thou My Vision")
Traditional Irish Tune
arr. by Kevin Holsinger & Michèle Sharik
To the north of the village is the top of the Hill of Slane.
There are a number of historic sites located around the top of the
hill. Oral tradition says that St. Patrick lit a Paschal fire on
this hill top in 433 CE in defiance of the High King Laoire who
forbid any other fires while a festival fire was burning on the Hill
of Tara. The Hill of Slane can be seen from the Hill of Tara which
is about 16 km away. Logaire was so impressed by Patrick's devotion
that, despite his defiance (or perhaps because of it), he let him
continue his missionary work in Ireland.
It is believed that the Hill of Slane was a center of religion and
learning for many centuries after St. Patrick. The ruins of a friary
and church can be seen on the top of the hill. It is known that the
friary was restored in 1512. The ruins include a 19 m high early
gothic tower. The friary was abandoned in 1723.
On the west side of the hill there are the remains of a twelfth
century Norman motte and bailey. This was the seat of the Flemings,
barons of Slane. The Flemings moved to a castle on the left bank of
the River Boyne. This is the current location of Slane Castle. The
Flemings were lords of Slane from the twelfth century until
seventeenth century when the Conyngham family replaced them as lords
of Slane during the Williamite Confiscations.
The traditional Christian hymn "Be Thou My Vision" is set to the
music of an early medieval Irish folk song named Slane
which is about the Hill of Slane.
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