Clonmacnoise
Sign in to savethumb|Clonmacnoise Cathedral from the south-east (centre and left), Temple Doolin and Temple Hurpan (right) and Temple Melaghlin (behind, covered)
Key facts
- Monastery.name
- Clonmacnoise
- Monastery.native_name
- Cluain Mhic Nóis
- Monastery.native_name_lang
- IE
- Monastery.image
- Clonmacnoise 6.jpg
- Monastery.caption
- Cross of the Scriptures, Cathedral, Temple Doolin and South Cross
- Monastery.other_names
- Cluain-maccu-nois; Cluain-mic-nois; Cluan; Tipraic, with Eaglais-beaag
- Monastery.order
- Canons Regular of Saint Augustine (1140–c.1144) Augustinian Canons Regular – Arroasian (1144–1568)
- Monastery.established
- AD 544
- Monastery.disestablished
- 1568
- Monastery.mother
- Clonard Abbey (mother house of nunnery only)
- Monastery.diocese
- Diocese of Clonmacnoise
- Monastery.founder
- St. Ciarán
- Monastery.abbot
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- Monastery.abbess
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- Monastery.style
- Celtic monastic
- Monastery.location
- near Athlone, County Offaly, Ireland
- Monastery.map_type
- Ireland
- Monastery.remains
- cathedral, seven churches, two round towers, three high crosses, grave slabs
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Encyclopedic overview
12 sectionsContents
- Geography
- History
- Buildings and High Crosses
- Interpretative Centre and facilities
- The lonfanlough stone
- Annals
- Annalistic references
- In popular culture
- See also
- Notes
- References
- External links
thumb|Clonmacnoise Cathedral from the south-east (centre and left), Temple Doolin and Temple Hurpan (right) and Temple Melaghlin (behind, covered)
Clonmacnoise or Clonmacnois () is a ruined monastery in County Offaly in Ireland on the River Shannon south of Athlone, founded in 544 by Saint Ciarán, from Rathcroghan, County Roscommon. Until the 9th century it had close associations with the kings of Connacht.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Clonmacnoise” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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On the map
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