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Clonamery Church
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Clonamery Church is located in Ireland
Clonamery Church
Clonamery Church
Location in Ireland
52°28′01″N 7°01′54″W / 52.466944°N 7.031667°W / 52.466944; -7.031667
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 or 10th century
Specifications
Length 23 m (75 ft)
Width 10 m (33 ft)
Number of floors 1
Materials stone
Administration
Diocese Ossory

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

Location

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

History

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

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.

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

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. The bell-cote had room for two bells: a sanctus bell and a bell for calling the people to prayer.

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.

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