holy sites of ireland

Rossclogher

County Leitrim

St Tiernan (550) built a monastery here and another for his mother St Mella on Church Island (Inistemple) in Lough Garadice. There is a church and traces of huts on the south and east.

OS 16 845 548 marked

see: Irish Monasticism


Church Island



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