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Templenagalliaghdoo

County Mayo

St Tiernan (550) founded a monastery here on the Errew peninsula on Lough Conn. The word means= ‘church of the black nun’. St Leogar was abbot of the monastery of Errew. There are the ruins of a church close to the Lough

OS 24 174 125 marked

see Irish Monasticism



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