Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Clonmacnoise

Clonmacnoise, par., NW. King's co., on river Shannon, containing Shannon Bridge, 5 miles NW. of Ferbane ry. sta., 21,918 ac., pop. 2523. C., which was one of the chief seats of religion among the ancient Irish and the burial-place of their princes, is also called the "Seven Churches." Its cathedral, churches, crosses, and two round towers are now in ruins.


(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Offaly IrlC
Place: Clonmacnoise

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