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Aghaboe (Catholic Parish)
Aghaboe, a Roman Catholic parish in County Laois, is one of the parishes of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Ossory. The parish is named after Aghaboe abbey which was founded in the 6th century by St. Canice and whose ruins are still visible in the hamlet of Aghaboe. Extent In his 1837 Topographical Dictionary of Ireland, Lewis, when describing the civil parish of Aghaboe, wrote that the Catholic parish of Aghaboe comprised, as well as the civil parish of the same name, the civil parishes of Killermagh (Kylermough) and Bordwell and parts of the civil parishes of Kildellig (Kyledellig) and Coolkerry. According to Carrigan, in his 1905 history of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Ossory,William Carrigan,History and Antiquities of the Diocese of Ossory Volume 2, (1905), page 26 the Catholic parish comprised 19,610 acres at that time, having been reduced in area in 1855, when that part of the civil parish of Aghaboe which was situated in the Barony of Clandonnagh was removed—it ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roman Catholic Diocese Of Ossory
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Ossory ( ga, Deoise Osraí) is a Roman Catholic diocese in eastern Ireland. It is one of three suffragan dioceses in the ecclesiastical province of the Metropolitan Archbishop of Dublin.Diocese of Ossory Catholic-Hierarchy''. Retrieved 26 April 2010. Currently, it is led by who was appointed on 28 October 2022 and will be ordained bishop on 29 December 2022. Its is the Marian Cathedral of St. Mary of the Assumption, in |
Aghaboe (abbey)
The Abbey of Aghaboe is one of the most important of the abbeys and priories in County Laois. It was founded in the kingdom of Osraige by St. Canice in the 6th century. In his ''Vita Sancti Columbae'' (Life of St. Columba), Adomnán refers to the abbey, saying that its name means a (little field) of the cow: "''quod Latine Campulus Bovis dicitur, Scotice vero Achadh-bou''" History The abbey grew into a major centre of learning, commerce and agriculture. Among the monks from the abbey was St. Virgilius (Feargal or Farrell), a noted geometer and astronomer who was abbot before he left Ireland and built the cathedral at Salzburg in Austria in the 8th century."Aghaboe Abbey", Laois County Council He was canonized in 1233. The |
Aghaboe
Aghaboe () is a small village in County Laois, Ireland. It is located on the R434 regional road in the rural hinterland west of the town of Abbeyleix. It contains the ruins of the Abbey of Aghaboe which was founded by St. Canice in the Ossory in the 6th century and, beside it, the church that later would become the Church of Ireland church of St. Canice. At some point before the Norman invasion of Ireland, Aghaboe Abbey succeeded Seirkieran as the principle abbey in Ossory. Canice built a daughter house of Aghaboe was at Kilkenny, the principal town of Ossory. The Synod of Rathbreasail in 1111, which first divided Ireland into territorial dioceses, included both Aghaboe and Kilkenny in the Diocese of Ossory, with the episcopal see at Kilkenny, whose abbey church became St Canice's Cathedral. The erroneous belief that the see was originally at Aghaboe and later transferred to Kilkenny is traced by John Bradley to a 16th-century misinterpretation of a 13th-century property ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aghaboe (civil Parish)
Aghaboe, or Aughavoe, is a civil parish in County Laois. It lies partly in the barony of Clarmallough and partly in the barony of Clandonnagh. Church of Ireland parish As with other civil parishes in Ireland, the civil parish of Aghaboe was derived from, and is co-extensive with, a pre-existing ecclesiastical parish of the Church of Ireland. However, due to reorganization of the church, the ecclesiastical parish no longer exists, having been subsumed into the parish of Rathdowney in the Diocese of Cashel and Ossory. The historian, antiquary and topographer, Edward Ledwich was a vicar of the Church of Ireland parish; he was appointed in 1772 and must have resigned in 1797 as his successor was appointed in that year. Early Irish church In the early Irish church, a parish was an ecclesiastical unit of territory based on the Gaelic territorial unit called a ''túath''Michael A. Monk and John SheehanEarly Medieval Munster: Archaeology, History and Society , (1998), page 56 or on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bordwell (civil Parish)
Bordwell, or Boardwell, is a civil parish in County Laois, Ireland. Townlands Its townland A townland ( ga, baile fearainn; Ulster-Scots: ''toonlann'') is a small geographical division of land, historically and currently used in Ireland and in the Western Isles in Scotland, typically covering . The townland system is of Gaelic origi ...s are: *Beckfield North *Beckfield South *Bordwell Big *Bordwell Little * Chapelhill *Coolfin *Court *Curragh *Farranville *Garryniska *Grantstown *Kilbreedy *Oldglass *Rahandrick Lower *Rahandrick Upper *Shanvaghey *Tinnaragh References Civil parishes of County Laois {{Laois-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coolkerry (civil Parish)
Coolkerry () is a civil parish in the barony of Clarmallagh in County Laois. It is separated into two disjoint areas by an arm of Aghaboe civil parish. Political geography Coolkery has six townlands. The townland of Coolkerry, along with the townlands of Coolnaboul East (a tiny area of only 4 acres, 2 roods and 12 perches), Graigueanossy and Turfarney are in the main, western, part of the civil parish, while the townlands of Coolacurragh and Middlemount (which is also known as Ballyvoghlaun) are in the eastern exclave of the parish. The political geography of the parish is further complicated by the fact that it is divided between two baronies. Coolnaboul East is in the barony of Clandonagh while the rest of the parish is in the barony of Clarmallagh. Population At the time of the 1861 census, there was nobody living in Coolnaboul East but the rest of the parish had a population of 260. History Coolkerry parish was established in the early 13th century, when it was pat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Middlemount (townland)
Middlemount (part of which is also called Ballyvoghlaun) is a townland in County Laois. Most of the townland (434 acres, including the townland house, ''Middlemount House'') is in the eastern exclave of Coolkerry civil parish. This part is also known as Ballyvoghlaun. The remaining part of the townland (190 acres, including the gate lodge for Middlemount House) is in the arm of Aghaboe civil parish which separate the eastern exclave of Coolkerry from the main, western part of Coolkerry. Middlemount Moat The part of Middlemount townland which lies in Aghaboe civil parish contains a motte which, on the Ordnance Survey map, is called ''Middlemount Moat''. It is sometimes called also the ''Moat of Laragh'' or the ''Mote of Monacoghlan''. (The words ''moat'', ''mote'' and ''motte'' are all related; ''moat'', which now means a deep wide ditch, was originally a variant of ''mote, n''''2'', a natural or man-made mound, from which comes the modern word ''motte''.) Carrigan describes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ballacolla
Ballacolla, officially Ballycolla (), is a village in County Laois, Ireland. It sits at the crossroads of the R433 and R434 regional roads, southwest of Abbeyleix Abbeyleix (; ) is a town in County Laois, Ireland, located around south of the county town of Portlaoise. Abbeyleix was formerly located on the N8, the main road from Dublin to Cork. At one point, up to 15,000 vehicles passed along the town' ... and 4 km northeast of junction 3 of the M8 motorway. ‘In Irish it is called Bolliacholla, i.e., Baile a’ Chalaidh, the townland of the … long, coarse, sedgy grass’ de réir an Chorragánaigh; deir sé ‘Dr. Joyce’s explanation … town of a man named Colla, is incorrect’. As of the 2016 census, Ballacolla had a population of 136 people. References See also * List of towns and villages in Ireland {{County Laois Towns and villages in County Laois Townlands of County Laois ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clough, County Laois
Clough () is a village in the civil parish of Bordwell in County Laois. It lies at a point where several townlands and two civil parish In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government below districts and counties, or their combined form, the unitary authority ...es meet. One of the churches of the Roman Catholic parish of Aghaboe, ''St. Canice'', is located in the part of the village which sits on the townland of Chapelhill which lies in the civil parish of Bordwell. References Towns and villages in County Laois ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
