Aghaboe

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The Dominican monastery, which was closed in 1540, is located in the center of the municipality

Aghaboe ( Irish Achadh Bó ) is a municipality in County Laois , Ireland , to the 73 townlands and the two places Borris in Ossory and Ballycolla with a total of 807 inhabitants (2006). The community goes back to the founding of the monastery of the same name around 560 by Cainnech (525-598).

Geographical location

Córas Iompair Éireann stop in Ballybrophy

The parish is west of Abbeyleix , southeast of Roscrea and north of Rathdowney . It extends from Borris-in-Ossory in the northwest to the townland of Gortnaclea in the east and to Ballybrophy and Ballycolla in the south. The municipality is cut in a west-east direction by the M7 between Dublin and Limerick . The main local connecting road is the R434. The Irish Railways stop in Ballybrophy with connections to Cork , Dublin and Limerick. As the Irish name Achadh Bó already suggests (translated: cow pasture), the municipality is predominantly gently rolling pastureland that rises south of the River Nore and southeast of the River Gully and finds its highest point in Knockseera at 187 m.

In the early Middle Ages, the country was at the northern end of the Kingdom of Ossory, and the monastery was one of its most important ecclesiastical sites alongside Seirkieran and Kilkenny , which were all temporarily the seat of the eponymous diocese. At that time, the Slige Dála highway from Tara to Limerick crossed the municipality.

history

The earliest evidence of settlement in the parish includes a barrow , documented in 1907 in the townland of Aghaboe, and two Bronze Age cooking sites ( fulachta fiadh ) in Fearagh and Ballygeehin Lower , which were leveled in 1955 and 1979, respectively. An artificial hill with possible traces of a tumulus can be found in Farraneglish Glebe . Raths from early Christian times still recognizable as such can be found among others. a. in Ballycolla and Tintore .

However, the area only became more important when Cainnech founded the monastery around 560. From around 1052 to 1111 and from 1152 to 1190, Aghaboe became the bishopric of Ossory . After the invasion of Ireland, which began in 1169, Aghaboe was one of the last areas of northern Ossory to be conquered by the English. In large part, Aghaboe was given by Strongbow to Adam de Hereford as a fief in return for providing five knights. The entire Ossory, which then included what is now south of County Laois and north of County Kilkenny , fell under the rule of the Marshals. The Irish MacGillapatricks ruling family then withdrew to the north of Ossory, in the Aghaboe area, and became a vassal of the Marshals. During this time a moth was erected in the immediate vicinity of the monastery along with a small fortified settlement that flourished with the help of English settlers. A little further west, in the townland of Corraun , the remains of a medieval settlement can be seen with the help of aerial photographs.

In 1346 Dermot MacGillapatrick rose against the English occupiers and on May 5th, in a very bloody way, captured the settlement in Aghaboe and burned it down. However, it was not until 1359 that he succeeded in taking the associated castle. The MacGillapatricks family re-established the monastery in 1382 as a home for the Dominicans and were able to maintain their power in Aghaboe until the reconquest of Ireland in the 16th century. However, the MacGillapatricks did not build their castle in Aghaboe, but around 1425 further south near the present-day town of Cullahill .

Aghaboe should stay rural. Borris-in-Ossory and Ballycolla later emerged as the main settlement areas. Borris-in-Ossory developed on a castle first occupied in 1581, which was called House of Borreidge , but whose origins probably reached back to the 15th century and nothing has survived .

literature

Web links

Commons : Aghaboe  - collection of images, videos and audio files
Commons : Ballacolla  - collection of images, videos and audio files
Commons : Ballybrophy  - collection of images, videos and audio files
Commons : Borris-in-Ossory  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Remarks

  1. ↑ Classified under Roscrea No. 3 rural area , 080, Borris-in-Ossory : Table 4: Population of each Province, County, City, urban area, rural area and Electoral Division, 2002 and 2006. p. 11 , archived from the original on July 21, 2011 ; Retrieved March 23, 2007 .
  2. ↑ Achadh Bhó. Retrieved January 21, 2012 .
  3. ↑ Annalen von Ulster , U527.1 and U599.2, years corrected from the tables by Daniel P. Mc Carthy
  4. ^ Ordnance Survey of Ireland (Ed.): Discovery Series 60 . Dublin 1997, ISBN 1-901496-26-0 . The townland list on logainm.ie was consulted on the extent of the municipality.
  5. ↑ Deirdre Flanagan , Laurence Flanagan : Irish Place Names . Gill & MacMillan, Dublin 1994, ISBN 0-7171-2066-X , pp. 12, 164 .
  6. ^ TM Charles-Edwards: Early Christian Ireland . Cambridge University Press, 2000, ISBN 0-521-03716-6 , pp. 262 .
  7. ↑ Gwynn, p. 28.
  8. ↑ Kennedy, p. 9; Lisa M. Bitel: Isle of the Saints: Monastic Settlement and Christian Community in Early Ireland . Cork University Press, Cork 1990, ISBN 1-85918-017-5 , pp. 28 . See also entries 114 and 115 on page 16 in Sweetman et al
  9. ↑ Sweetman et al., P. 7, entry 38. This refers to J. O'Hanlon, M. Lalor: History of the Queen's county . Vol. 1, 1907, pp. 159 . However, the exact location is no longer known.
  10. ↑ Sweetman et al., P. 12, entries 84 and 86.
  11. ↑ Sweetman et al., P. 11, entry 77.
  12. ↑ Sweetman et al., P. 20, entry 143.
  13. ↑ Sweetman et al., P. 33, entry 279.
  14. ↑ Gwynn, pp. 28, 101. Benedict O'Sullivan: Medieval Irish Dominican Studies . Ed .: Hugh Fenning. Four Courts Press, Dublin 2009, ISBN 978-1-84682-151-6 , pp. 68 .
  15. ↑ Goddard Henry Orpen: Ireland under the Normans 1169-1333 . 3rd and new edition. Volume 1. Four Courts Press, Dublin 2005, ISBN 1-85182-715-3 , pp. 388 .
  16. ↑ OBenedict O'Sullivan: Medieval Irish Dominican Studies . Ed .: Hugh Fenning. Four Courts Press, Dublin 2009, ISBN 978-1-84682-151-6 , pp. 68 .
  17. ^ Sweetman et al., P. 101, entry 900. Benedict O'Sullivan: Medieval Irish Dominican Studies . Ed .: Hugh Fenning. Four Courts Press, Dublin 2009, ISBN 978-1-84682-151-6 , pp. 69 .
  18. ↑ Sheeman among others, S. 106, record 933rd
  19. ^ John Clyn: The Annals of Ireland . Ed .: Bernadette Williams. Four Courts Press, Dublin 2007, ISBN 978-1-84682-034-2 , pp. 238-239 .
  20. ^ Benedict O'Sullivan: Medieval Irish Dominican Studies . Ed .: Hugh Fenning. Four Courts Press, Dublin 2009, ISBN 978-1-84682-151-6 , pp. 69 .
  21. ↑ Sweetman et al., P. 114, entry 954.
  22. ↑ Sweetman et al., P. 121, entry 1011.

Coordinates: 52 ° 55 ′ 19.2 "  N , 7 ° 30 ′ 47.4"  W.