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Clonmacnoise Cathedral from the south-east (centre and left), Temple Doolin and Temple Hurpan (right) and Temple Melaghlin (behind, covered) Clonmacnoise or Clonmacnois (Irish: Cluain Mhic Nóis) is a ruined monastery in County Offaly in Ireland on the River Shannon south of Athlone, founded in 544 by Saint Ciarán, a young man from Rathcroghan, County Roscommon. [2]
Cong Abbey also known as the Royal Abbey of Cong, is a historic site located at Cong, County Mayo, in Ireland's province of Connacht.The ruins of the former Augustinian abbey mostly date to the 13th century and have been described as featuring some of finest examples of medieval ecclesiastical architecture in Ireland.
The Monasterboice (Irish: Mainistir Bhuithe) ruins are the remains of an early Christian monastic settlement in County Louth in Ireland, north of Drogheda.The ruins are a national monument of Ireland and also give their name to the local village and to a civil parish of the same name.
Kilmacduagh Monastery is located in a small village of the same name, about 5 km from the town of Gort.. The name of the place translates as "church of Duagh's son". [1] It was reportedly the 7th century Saint Colman, son of Duagh who established a monastery here on land given to him by his cousin King Guaire Aidne mac Colmáin of Connacht, who had a fortified dwelling near what is today ...
Corcomroe Abbey (Irish: Mainistir Chorca Mrua [1]) is an early 13th-century Cistercian monastery located in the north of the Burren region of County Clare, Ireland, a few miles east of the village of Ballyvaughan in the Barony of Burren. It was once known as "St. Mary of the Fertile Rock", a reference to the Burren's fertile soil.
St. Declan's Monastery, containing the remains of Ardmore Cathedral, is a former monastery and National Monument located in County Waterford, Ireland. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Location
Durrow Abbey is a historic site in Durrow, County Offaly in Ireland. [2] It is located off the N52 some 5 miles from Tullamore.Largely undisturbed, the site is an early medieval monastic complex of ecclesiastical and secular monuments, visible and sub-surface.
Linally Monastery: erroneous reference to Lynally, County Offaly: Linn Monastery early monastic site, nuns: Magheramorne Monastery early monastic site, monks founded 5th century by St Patrick Domnach-mor-maige-damoerna: Massereene Friary