holy sites of ireland

Killeigh

County Offaly

St Sincheall (548) founded the monastery here. There is a Holy Well and a Holy Tree, and a Cross Slab in the chapter house of the friary in village.

OS 54 336 183 marked

see: C O’Brien Stories from a Sacred Landscape ch 4

see: Irish Monasticism, Holy Wells and Holy Trees


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