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| | Midland Tribune Snippets August 1899 - Old Newspapers, Reading Resources, Offaly Research, King's County (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02) |
 | | Of the three, Seir Kieran is the largest, and Fancroft, which is seven miles distant, the next in extent. |
 | | In Seir Kieran, St. Kieran the patron of the diocese, and "the first-born of the saints of Ireland," preached the Gospel of Christ before the arrival of St. Patrick, and its annals record a meeting of these two saints, at a subsequent period, under its hospitable roof. |
 | | Up to the eleventh century, it was the residence of the bishops of Ossory, and until the Reformers razed it to the ground in the fifteenth century, it held an honoured place amongst the religious establishments of Ireland. |
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