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	Clogher civil parish Tyrone county, Lewis, 1837 description ©Jane Lyons
		Moelisa O'Carrol, Bishop of Clogher, in 1183, on his translation of the archbishoprick of Armagh, presented to this abbey a priests vestments and a mitre, and promised a pastoral staff; he also consecrated the abbey church.
		Clogher is situated on a lofty eminence, in the midst of a rich and diversified country encircled by mountains, which on the south approach within one mile, and on the north within two miles of the town, and the highest of which is Knockmany.
		The living is a rectory and vicarage, in the diocese of Clogher, constituting the corps of the deanery of Clogher, in the patronage of the Crown: the tithes amount to £850, and the income of the dean, including tithes and glebe, is £1374.
	www.from-ireland.net /lewis/t/clogher.htm (1374 words)

	Cermand Cestach - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The annalist Cathal Maguire who died in 1498 stated that this stone-idol was still preserved as a curiosity in the porch of the Cathedral of Clogher in his time.
		Clogher is called by Ptolemy Rhigia or Regia; and according to some authors, St.
		The website http://www.irishmegaliths.org.uk states;- "The Killycluggin Crom Cruach was one of three great oracle-stones in Ireland, the others being the Lía Fáil at Tara and the Cloch Óir at Clogher in County Tyrone." The reason the Lía Fáil was called "The Stone of Destiny" was because it told your destiny.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cermand_Cestach (943 words)

	Lewis Gernonstown - Newtown
		The monastery became a very extensive seat of learning under the superintendence of St. Mocteus and his successors; and it is said that 100 bishops and 300 presbyters, all eminent for learning and piety, were educated in this school.
		The abbot surrendered the monastery, with its revenues, in the 31st of Hen.
		This place is chiefly distinguished for the remains of the monastery from which it derived its name, founded by St. Bute or Boetius, the son of Bronagh, who died in 521; it was plundered in 968, and in 1097 was destroyed by fire.
	www.jbhall.freeservers.com /lewis_gernonstown_-_newtown.htm (5110 words)

	Armagh
		As the first Anglo-Norman adventurers who came to Ireland showed very little scruple in despoiling the churches and monasteries, Armagh suffered considerably from their depredations and the clergy were almost reduced to beggary.
		Living during the worst of the penal times, the primate was obliged constantly to wander from place to place, saying Mass and administering Confirmation in the open air.
		He was succeeded by his nephew, Bernard Mac Mahon (1737-47), then Bishop of Clogher, who is described as a prelate remarkable for zeal, charity, prudence, and sound doctrine.
	www.catholicity.com /encyclopedia/a/armagh.html (4213 words)

	Latin Saints of the Orthodox Patriarchate of Rome
		Founder of the monastery of Llanfechell in Anglesey in Wales.
		The founder of a monastery of hermits on the Egyptian model in Nanteuil in France.
		Founder of the monastery of Saint-Florent-le-Vieil on the Loire in France.
	www.orthodoxengland.btinternet.co.uk /saintsm.htm (5619 words)

	Lewis Annagasson - Carrickbaggott
		There is a beautiful drive along the sea-side to Dundalk, and to Clogher Head, where regattas are annually held; and the view of the bay and the sea, with steamboats and other craft daily passing and repassing, give an air of cheerfulness to the place.
		Having been appointed to the archbishoprick of Armagh, he received a grant for life of the monastery and its appurtenances, in 1554; and in 1612 its possessions in and near the town were granted, by Jas.
		Of the Augustine monastery, with the exception of the church, only the eastern wall of the belfry at the west end, and an adjoining cell on the north are remaining; and of the Carmelite friary there are no vestiges.
	www.jbhall.freeservers.com /lewis_annagasson_to_carrickbaggott.htm (5703 words)

	Fermanagh Gold: Monasteries of River Erne (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Some monasteries were built in out of the way places but those on islands in the River Erne or its lakes or build along its shores obviously wished to be at the heart of the communities of their time.
		Monasteries were firstly places of prayer where men or women devoted themselves to the service of God in order that they might go to heaven when they died.
		Many monasteries become rich and powerful so much so that an Irish attack on the monastery of Kells states that 3,000 men were captured plus a large booty of goods, horses, gold and silver.
	www.fermanagh.org.uk /genealogy/history/monast.htm (2124 words)

	Cassidys: Origin of the ancient Irish Clan and Cassidy History
		Ui Caiside was closely linked to the monastery and had access to its school at a time when education was denied to most.
		Cassidys were noted as "a most prominent, and is some ways a unique house, a people apart." This acclaim stemmed in part from their long history as priests and scholars in the Diocese of Clogher, especially during the suppression of the Roman Catholic Church under the Penal Laws of the 18th Century.
		The Annals are one of the most significant Irish texts from the later middle ages, containing a reliable record of events of local and national significance along with information on family relationships, men of learning, and social development.
	www.cassidyclan.org /cassidys.htm (1690 words)

	MACARTAN 1500 : The Church of Ireland Diocese of Clogher
		The original Diocese of Clogher was, practically speaking, coextensive with the territory of the Prince of Oriel.
		Macartan was the 'strong man' of Patrick, who established the church in Clogher and spread the gospel in Tyrone and Fermanagh.
		For in 1135 Gilla Crist O Morgair (Christianus) moved the Diocese to Louth (a union that lasted until 1218), while The Annals of Ulster continued to refer to the Bishop of Clogher as the Bishop of Airghialla (in English 'Oriel') into the second half of the 14th century.
	clogher.anglican.org /1500/index.php?p=years (282 words)

	Irish Genealogy and Geography - Diocese Map
		In 1247, Archbishop Rayner separated the county of Louth from the diocese of Clogher, and annexed it to Armagh.
		The church and monastery founded by St. Finbarr in the late 6th century were the centre of the diocese till the sixteenth century.
		A monastery was founded at Ardcarn in the 6th century and at the Synod of Rathbreasail in 1111 Ardcarn was chosen as one of the five dioceses of Connacht.
	www.rootsweb.com /~irlkik/ihm/diocese.htm (4796 words)

	THE MAGUIRE (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Indeed the Bishop of Clogher was referred to in The Annals of Ulster as the ‘Bishop of Airghialla’ right up to the fourteenth century.
		Following the Norman invasion of England by William the Conqueror and the subsequent defeat of the Saxon King Harold II at the Battle of Hastings in 1066, the Normans quickly took control of Britain and eventually arrived in Ireland in 1169.
		In the twelfth century the Augustinians arrived and founded a monastery at Lisgoole on the shores of Lough Erne.
	scotshouse.com /maguire (1144 words)

	Cullen genealogy blog
		Moelisa O'Carrol, Bishop of Clogher, in 1183, on his translation of the archbishoprick of Armagh, presented to this abbey a priest's vestments and a mitre, and promised a pastoral staff; he also consecrated the abbey church.
		During that time, however, the English were alarmed to learn that a priest named Piers O'Cullen of Clogher had sailed to Spain, bearing a letter dated September 19 and signed by O'Neill and O'Donnell.
		Clogher is a very small town in county tyrone which I visited in 1989.
	cullengene.blogspot.com (1143 words)

	Church of Ireland Gazette - Focus on Clogher Diocese - 28th May 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		It is said that the see of Clogher was founded by St Patrick, who appointed one of his companions, Macartan, as first bishop.
		Within the Church of Ireland, the Diocese of Clogher is unique in having two cathedrals that bear Macartan's name, yet with a single chapter and Dean.
		Although the diocese is geographically quite evenly spread on either side of the border, its people and parishes form a closely-knit community, with common concerns and a common outlook.
	www.gazette.ireland.anglican.org /280504/focus280504.htm (1328 words)

	Lewis's Topographical Directory of Ireland, 1837, Monaghan [Archeire, Irish Architecture Online]
		On this occasion the Lord-Deputy was attended by the Lord-Chancellor and judges of assize, and by the attorney- general, the celebrated Sir John Davies, who describes the place as consisting only of a few scattered cabins, occupied chiefly by the retired soldiers of Sir Edward Blayney's garrison.
		The living is a rectory and vicarage, in the diocese of Clogher, and in the patronage of the Bishop : the tithes amount to £553.
		The consistorial court of the diocese of Clogher is held in the town ; and the presbytery of Monaghan, in connection with the Synod of Ulster, also holds its meetings here in February and October.
	irish-architecture.com /buildings_ireland/monaghan/monaghan/lewis.html (1228 words)

	saints
		Tradition names Macartan as the "strong man" of Saint Patrick, who established the church in Clogher and spread the Gospel in Tyrone and Fermanagh.
		An eighth century manuscript of the gospels, associated with a silver shrine, Domnach Airgid, in the Royal Irish Academy, is linked with the early Christian life of Clogher diocese.
		She continued in Killeavy, not far from Newry, the spirit of the teaching and pastoral concern of Patrick and Brigid.
	www.aoh61.com /saints/saints_mz.htm (2860 words)

	Catholic Diocese of Clogher - www.clogherdiocese.ie (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The blessing of the completed icon of St Macartan by Bishop Duffy in the presence of the Papal Nuncio to Ireland and the representative of all the parishes of Clogher Diocese will be a key moment of the Diocesan Eucharist of Thanksgiving on Sunday 26 March 2006.
		It is intended that, after the necessary period of several months required for the complete drying of the natural pigments used in the icon, the Icon of St Macartan of Clogher will be available to parishes as a focus of and stimulus to prayer.
		The open doorway is based on that of the monastery at Clonmacnoise, and Christ is represented as the Lamb of God.
	www.clogherdiocese.ie /macartan1500/macartan1500-icon.html (594 words)

	The Book of Kells
		It is believed the manuscript was made in the monastery of Saint Columcille on the Island of Iona off the west coast of Scotland in the ninth century.
		There is a reference in the Annals of Ulster to the minna (or treasures) of the Monastery of Iona being taken to Ireland during the Viking raids on Iona of the 9th century.
		Kells was a daughter house of the monastery at Iona and it is generally believed that the treasures of Iona including the Great Gospel Book were lodged at Kells for safe keeping.
	www.stmarys.ca /academic/arts/irishst/kells.htm (579 words)

	Abbeys and priories in Northern Ireland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Cistercian from Whitland 1200-1543, on the site of an earlier monastery founded by St Patrick, site now occupied by St Mary's C.I. church
		Cistercian, rebuilt and served for a time as a parish church
		Cistercian, on the site of an earlier monastery
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Abbeys_and_priories_in_Northern_Ireland (309 words)

	A History Of Lismore, County Waterford, Ireland
		During the 9th century and beginning of the 10th century the town was repeatedly plunged by the Danes.
		In 1589 the Bishop's Palace was leased with its lands to Sir Walter Raleigh for a rent of £12 a year by the then Bishop of Lismore Miler McGrath.
		He had been consecrated Bishop of Down and Connor by the Pope in 1567, became a Protestant in 1569, was made Bishop of his native Clogher in 1570 and a year later Archbishop of Cashel to which diocese he added Lismore and Waterford.
	www.discoverlismore.com /lismorehistory.shtml (811 words)

	Meehan Surname History
		In other words, they are descendants of the family of the founder of the monastery, and hold his relics, in this case a manuscript, probably a copy of the gospels, belonging to St. Laserian, better known as St. Molaise of Devenish.
		Being herenachs, the family had hereditary right in perpetuity to land on the Island, and the monastery supported the family in return for having access to the relics of the patron, on special feast days such as Devenish Patron Day, 12th September.
		This was a local holiday until late in the nineteenth century, when it was shut down by a puritanical official guardian of morality as an occasion for rowdy drunkenness and debauchery lasting a weekend or longer, thus putting an end to what sounds like must once have been a fine institution.
	home.earthlink.net /~anderson207/MeehanHist.html (1244 words)

	Saint Patrick's Church: Saints of January 1
		Bonannus, a Benedictine of the Celestine Congregation, was a monk of the monastery of Saint Laurence in Abruzzi, Italy (Benedictines).
		Fulgentius's mother caused such an uproar with her vociferous objections to Faustus' accepting her son into the monastery that Faustus was obliged to leave, and Fulgentius also left, to enter a nearby monastery where the abbot, Felix, insisted that he rule equally with him.
		About 532 he attempted to retire to a monastery on the island of Circinia, but he was so beloved by his flock that they prevented him from passing his last years in seclusion.
	www.saintpatrickdc.org /ss/0101.htm (4085 words)

	IMPARTIAL REPORTER
		Thousands of people will be on the move this Sunday all over the diocese of Clogher as part of a national day of pilgrimage which is to be one of the main events organised by the Catholic Church to celebrate the 2000th year of Our Lord.
		Pilgrimage Sunday is not confined to the parish of Clogher and in neighbouring Kilmore, which takes in parts of south Fermanagh, parishes will be marking the event with similar events.
		Symbolising the unbroken history of the Christian tradition in Fermanagh, two chalices donated by the chieftains of the Maguire clan to the Catholic Church and dating as far back as the 16th century will be used in the celebration of the Mass.
	www.impartialreporter.com /archive/2000-05-18/news/story535.html (605 words)

	MONAGHAN (Site not responding. Last check: )
		This place, till within a comparatively modern period, was distinguished only by a monastery, of which St. Moclodius, the son of Aedh, was abbot ; and which, according to the Annals of the Four Masters, was plundered in 830 and again in 931.
		About 1400 children are taught in ten other public schools, of which the parochial school, for which a new house has been recently built, is partly supported by the rector ; a free school for boys was founded by H. Jackson, Esq., who endowed it with £22.
		I., when the lord-deputy made a progress thither to inspect and settle the province, he was forced on entering the county to encamp in the open field.
	homepage.ntlworld.com /enda.l/counties/monaghanco.htm (3926 words)

	Catholic Diocese of Clogher - www.clogherdiocese.ie
		Most Rev Joseph Duffy, Bishop of Clogher will participate in a pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela in 2004 to mark the unification of Europe.
		The pilgrimage will begin on 17 April 2004 at the Benedictine monastery of Santo Domingo de Silos and will be joined by over 300 pilgrims nominated by the Catholic Bishops’ Conferences of the present and future European Union, as well as politicians, journalists, writers and artists.
		Clogher priest Monsignor Noel Treanor is General Secretary of COMECE.
	www.clogherdiocese.ie /news/news-8may2003-santiago2004.html (349 words)

	McGrath Reunion
		They became coarbs of the monastery, which is a title of the hereditary lay supervisors of the monastery lands and denotes descent from the group of the founder of the institution.
		However those who survived by keeping their nerve and saying their prayers were believed to have removed all stain of sin from their souls and would now enter directly into Heaven when they died.
		The lands of the monastery were called Termon Lands and they were bounded by a river still today called the Termon River from the Latin word "terminus" meaning the end or the boundary.
	www.cerebis.com /mcgrath/view-info.php?srcid=4 (2575 words)

	Kells Page 5
		It originally came from Kells (in C. Meath), where a Monastery had been established in the early ninth century, at the time of the Viking invasions, by the monks of the monastery of Iona off the coast of Scotland.
		In the year 1006 (recte 1007) we are told the it was wickely stolen during the night from the western sacristy of the great stone church at Cenannas (Kells) on account of its wrought shrine.
		A few years later, after 1661, it was presented to Trinity College by Henry Jones, former bishop Clogher, who became scoutmaster general of Cromwell's army and, at the Restoration, bishop of Meath (not to mention vice-chancellor of the University).
	wmollon.tripod.com /kells3.htm (361 words)

	Monaghan history - Heritage and historical attractions in Monaghan (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The unique 14th Century Cross of Clogher and the fine collection of medieval "crannog" (lake dwelling) artefacts are amongst it's most valued items.
		The shrine is named after St. Tighernach who founded a monastery in Clones in the 6th century, which the tower, cross and church belonged.
		The early Christian monastery of St Daig is marked by the only surviving feature, a Round Tower, which can be seen in the village.
	www.countymonaghan.com /monaghan_heritage_castle_leslie.htm (1024 words)

	Dictionary of Canadian Biography (Site not responding. Last check: )
		He received his education at the monastery school of St Patrick’s at Tullow, Carlow College (1843—53), the University of London (where he received a ba in 1850), and the Irish College in Rome (1853—55).
		It was less the anti-Protestant fervour of St Francis de Sales than his vision of a union of the contemplative with the active life that shaped Bishop Power’s piety.
		During his episcopate the cathedral (now a basilica) in St John’s, the demonstrable presence of Roman Catholicism in the island, was renovated; a monastery for the Christian Brothers, Mount St Francis, erected; and two orphanages, Belvedere for girls and Villa Nova for boys, as well as many churches and schools, built.
	www.biographi.ca /EN/ShowBioPrintable.asp?BioId=40496 (1234 words)

	IMPARTIAL REPORTER
		Thousands of people abandoned their cars and walked to services at historic sites throughout the dioceses of Clogher and Kilmore last Sunday in an event organised nationwide to celebrate the 2000 years of Christianity.
		Gerry Comiskey was full of praise for those who helped organise the event which was one of the biggest gatherings in the county.
		While Pilgrimage Sunday was seen as one of the highlights of the Catholic church’s Jubilee Year, other events are planned at different locations around the diocese in the coming weeks and months.
	www.impartialreporter.com /archive/2000-05-24/news/story562.html (558 words)

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