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  Cathedral Bell Specifications     Blessing of the bells, 1996
             
 
Number & Pitch Name Year Cast Weight * Diameter (mm)
1 - A flat Mary MacKillop 1995 5-0-25
(265.4)		 673
Sharp 2 - G Catherine McAuley 1995 5-0-19
(262.6) 		686
2 - G flat St Dominic 1995 5-2-07
(282.6)		 705
3 - F St Vincent de Paul 1995 5-3-09
(296.2) 		724
4 - E flat Edmund Ignatius Rice 1995 5-3-23
(302.5)		 762
5 - D flat St Francis 1881 6-1-23
(327.9)		 806
6 - C St Benedict 1881 6-2-20
(339.3)		 813
7 - B flat St Patrick 1881 7-1-23
(378.8)		 870
8 - A flat St John the Baptist 1881 8-3-18
(452.7)		 962
9 - G flat St Joseph 1881 10-3-21
(555.7)		 1032
10 - F Ora pro nobis 1881 12-2-05
(637.3)		 1089
11 - E flat Mary Mother of God 1881 17-0-15
(870.4)		 1197
12 - D flat (SS Peter and Paul) 1992 28-2-01
(1448.3)		 1359
 
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
    Bells at blessing ceremony
    17 March 1996.
     
     
     
     
     
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Traditionally bell weights are referred to in imperial figures, ie hundred-weight - cwt, quarter hundred-weight and pounds. One cwt = 112 pounds. One quarter hundred-weight = 28 pounds. There are 20 cwt in a ton. The figures in parenthesis are the weights in Kg and are included for interest.
    
       
       
       
               
  The Murphy Bell weight is 38-3-07 (1970 Kg).        

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