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Clonamery Church

Coordinates: 52°28′01″N 7°01′54″W / 52.466944°N 7.031667°W / 52.466944; -7.031667
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Clonamery Church
Cill Chluain Iomaire
Clonamery Church is located in Ireland
Clonamery Church
Clonamery Church
52°28′01″N 7°01′54″W / 52.466944°N 7.031667°W / 52.466944; -7.031667
LocationClonamery, Inistioge, County Kilkenny
CountryIreland
DenominationChurch of Ireland
Previous denominationPre-Reformation Catholic
Architecture
Functional statusinactive
StyleCeltic Christianity
Years built9th or 10th century
Specifications
Length23 m (75 ft)
Width10 m (33 ft)
Number of floors1
Materialsstone
Administration
DioceseOssory
Official nameClonamery Church
Reference no.77

Clonamery Church is a medieval church and National Monument in County Kilkenny, Ireland.[1]

Location

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Clonamery Church is located 3 km (1.9 mi) southeast of Inistioge, on the north bank of the River Nore.[2]

History

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St Broonahawn (pattern day 16 May) founded a monastery at Clonamery. The present church was built in the 9th or 10th century.[3]

The Romanesque chancel was added in the 12th century, while the out-building (sacristy) be 15th/16th century, and a bell-cote was added at the same time.[citation needed]

Tradition states that the church continued in use until 1691, when Edward Fitzgerald of Cloone Castle died at the Battle of Aughrim.[citation needed]

Church

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Clonamery is a nave-and-chancel church with a sacristy built of roughly dressed stones not laid in regular courses with a slight batter. There is a flat-headed west doorway with a cross pattée above the lintel and antae in the west gable.[4] The bell-cote had room for two bells: a sanctus bell and a bell for calling the people to prayer.[5]

A pillar-stone of early date was found at Clonamery. It is made of greenish slate and bears three crosses and two cup marks. There are some cross slabs and a grave slab also.[6]

References

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  1. ^ Boardman, Steve; Davies, John Reuben; Williamson, Eila (15 August 2013). Saints' Cults in the Celtic World. Boydell Press. ISBN 9781843838456 – via Google Books.
  2. ^ Henry, Françoise (1 January 1940). "Irish Art in the Early Christian Period". Methuen & Company, Limited – via Google Books.
  3. ^ "Clonamery, County Kilkenny".
  4. ^ "Early Monastic Churches".
  5. ^ "Clonamery Church".
  6. ^ "THE HANDSTAND".