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Finnian and his pupils in a stained glass window at the Church of St. Finian in Clonard. Finnian came first to Aghowle in County Wicklow at the foot of Sliabh Condala, where Oengus, the king of Leinster granted him a site. He then founded a monastic community on Skellig Michael, off the coast of Kerry, 'though this is doubted by historians. [7]
Saint Finian was a disciple of St. Columba. He was a strict Irish abbot, whose monks followed a vegetarian diet. [3] For a period of time, he stayed in Clonmore, later becoming the abbot of Swords Abbey near Dublin. [1] He may have returned to Clonmore in his later years, and was called Lobhar, "The Leper".
The bay is named after Saint Finan Cam.He may have been the first founder of the oratory on Skellig Michael, directly opposite St. Finian's Bay.. When the Danes were raiding Ireland the monastery was moved to the mainland, and as of 1890 its dilapidated walls could still be seen in the sheltered corner at the head of St. Finian's Bay.
Disused Anglican church at the monastic site of Clonard The construction of the monastery in a stained glass window of the church of St. Finian in Clonard. Clonard Abbey (Irish: Mainistir Chluain Ioraird, meaning "Erard's Meadow") was an early medieval monastery situated on the River Boyne in Clonard, County Meath, Ireland.
Finan Cam (or Fionan, Finian), Abbot of Kinnity was an early Irish saint associated with County Kerry, Ireland, who lived in the 6th century AD, and possibly the 7th century. [a] To distinguish him from other saints of the same name the appellation of Cam or "crooked" has been given to him, either because he was stooped or because he had a ...
Finan of Lindisfarne (died 10 [1] or 17 February 661), also known as Saint Finan, was an Irish monk, trained at Iona Abbey in Scotland, who became the second bishop of Lindisfarne from 651 until 661. Life
St Finian's Esker church and graveyard is an historical site in Esker near Lucan outside Dublin in Ireland. It contains a medieval church in ruins and an enclosed graveyard. The graveyard has over 50 extant memorials from the early 18th century to the early 20th centur
Following an increase in the number of Lutherans in Ireland following the Second World War, the Lutheran Church was re-established in 1955. They moved into St Finian's Adelaide Road, which was leased from the Church of Ireland and the Church was rededicated in 1961, a German and a Swedish Bishop and the Archbishop of Dublin in attendance.