[1] A disciple of Saint Patrick, she built a refuge for sailors who were shipwrecked in Carlingford Lough.

The ringing of Bronach’s bell warned of a rising storm on the dangerous waters of the Lough.

About 150 years ago a storm brought down a large old oak tree in the Kilbroney churchyard, and in its branches was found a 10th-century bell.

[2] Lying in Glenn Sechis, a mountain valley in County Down (near Rostrevor), Cell Brónche lay at some distance from the major political centres of the region.

[1] A high cross which survives among the ruins of Cell Brónche attests to the importance of her church.