Clonamery Church
Clonamery Church | |||||||||
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Cill Chluain Iomaire | |||||||||
Clonamery Church | |||||||||
52°28′01″N 7°01′54″W / 52.466944°N 7.031667°WCoordinates: 52°28′01″N 7°01′54″W / 52.466944°N 7.031667°W | |||||||||
Location | Clonamery, Inistioge, County Kilkenny | ||||||||
Country | Ireland | ||||||||
Denomination | Church of Ireland | ||||||||
Previous denomination | Pre-Reformation Catholic | ||||||||
Architecture | |||||||||
Functional status | inactive | ||||||||
Style | Celtic Christianity | ||||||||
Years built | 9th/10th century | ||||||||
Specifications | |||||||||
Length | 23 m (75 ft) | ||||||||
Width | 10 m (33 ft) | ||||||||
Number of floors | 1 | ||||||||
Materials | stone | ||||||||
Administration | |||||||||
Diocese | Ossory | ||||||||
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Clonamery Church is a medieval church and National Monument in County Kilkenny, Ireland.[1]
Location[]
Clonamery Church is located 3 km (1.9 mi) southeast of Inistioge, on the north bank of the River Nore.[2]
History[]
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[]
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 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[]
- ^ Boardman, Steve; Davies, John Reuben; Williamson, Eila (15 August 2013). Saints' Cults in the Celtic World. Boydell Press. ISBN 9781843838456 – via Google Books.
- ^ Henry, Françoise (1 January 1940). "Irish Art in the Early Christian Period". Methuen & Company, Limited – via Google Books.
- ^ "Clonamery, County Kilkenny".
- ^ "Early Monastic Churches".
- ^ "Clonamery Church".
- ^ "THE HANDSTAND".
- Churches in County Kilkenny
- Archaeological sites in County Kilkenny
- National Monuments in County Kilkenny
- Former churches in the Republic of Ireland