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Killiney

County Dublin

It would appear that the sisters of St Colman Maclennine founded the monastery here by the sea in the 7C. Killiney = Cill Onion Leinin = ‘Church of the Daughters of Leinin’. There is a small cross and font.

OS 50 258 243 marked

see: Irish Monasticism


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