Inchcleraun
| Inchcleraun Inis Cloithrinn |
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| Waters | Lough Ree | |
| Geographical location | 53 ° 35 ′ N , 8 ° 1 ′ W | |
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| length | 3.2 km | |
| width | 1.6 km | |
| surface | 0.577 m² | |
| Residents | uninhabited | |
Inchcleraun ( Irish Inis Cloithrinn , older Inis Clothrann , English also Quaker Island ) is one of a dozen islands in Lough Ree .
The island is uninhabited, but is used as a pasture for cattle.
History / legend
The name means "Island of Clothru ", after the daughter of King Eochaid Fedlech . According to one of the legends, Clothru was murdered by her sister, Queen Medb . Furbaide Ferbend , Clothrus' son, avenged his mother by killing Medb on Inchcleraun with a sling.
building
Between 800 and 1300, the island was repeatedly attacked and looted. That is why only ruins are left.
Templedermo Monastery, from St. Diarmaid the Righteous, founded in 540, is the most famous ruin. Diarmaid was the teacher of Ciarán of Clonmacnoise .
Templemore is the most important ruin on the island. The church consists of a single nave 14.5 m long and 6.5 m wide. The walls are about 4 m high. At the eastern end there are two pointed arch windows that are long, narrow and well recessed.
The windows on the south side look like additional additions and are asymmetrical. All traces of doors have disappeared, but there are indications of a west door and an entrance on the north side of the cloister. An upper chamber exists. The inner walls of the lower apartments form intermediate supports for the flooring. The interior walls of the church were once plastered.
John O'Donovan referred to this building as two churches: the monastic apartments as one and the domed sacristy as a penitential prison known as "Deartheach".