Clonkeen Church Explained
| Clonkeen Church |
| Native Name: | Teampall Chluain Caoin |
| Native Name Lang: | ga |
| Pushpin Map: | Ireland |
| Relief: | yes |
| Coordinates: | 52.6439°N -8.4599°W |
| Country: | Ireland |
| Denomination: | Catholic (pre-Reformation) |
| Founded Date: | c. AD 600 |
| Founder: | Saint Mo-Diomog |
| Functional Status: | inactive |
| Embedded: | | Designation1: | National Monument of Ireland | | Designation1 Number: | 84 | | Designation1 Offname: | Clonkeen Church |
|
| Years Built: | 15th century AD |
| Length: | 14.6m (47.9feet) |
| Width: | 5.5m (18feet) |
| Floor Count: | 1 |
| Floor Area: | 80.3m2 |
| Materials: | stone, mortar |
| Diocese: | Cashel and Emly |
Clonkeen Church is a medieval church and a National Monument in County Limerick, Ireland.[1] [2] [3] [4]
Location
The church is located on the R506 road, near Barringtonsbridge approximately 6km (04miles) southeast of Annacotty, north of the River Mulkear.[5]
History
A monastery was founded here by Saint Mo-Diomog (feast day 10 December)[6] in the 6th or 7th century. [7] The present church dates to the mid-12th century (based on its similarity to Aghadoe Cathedral, dated to 1158).[8]
The church was ruined by 1657.[9]
Church
Clonkeen Church is a small rectangular church with antae at the east and west ends. The west part of the church, incorporating the west doorway is Romanesque, built of roughly coursed large stones, mostly sandstone. It has a well-preserved doorway with an arch of three orders, with Romanesque carving around the jambs.[10] [11] [12]
The capitals and columns with chevrons are similar to those at Aghadoe.[13]
Notes and References
- Web site: Papers by Command. Great Britain Parliament House of. Commons. 10 January 2018. H.M. Stationery Office. Google Books.
- Web site: Murroe and Boher: the history of an Irish country parish. Mark. Tierney. 10 January 1966. Browne and Nolan. Google Books.
- Web site: The Architectural Review. 10 January 2018. Architectural Press Limited. Google Books.
- Web site: Ahane (C.) Lisnagry - The Schools' Collection. dúchas.ie.
- Web site: Clonkeen Church, County Limerick, Munster, Ireland. ie.geoview.info.
- Web site: Page:The Catholic prayer book.djvu/18 - Wikisource, the free online library. en.wikisource.org.
- Web site: Holdings: Plate showing doorways at Clonkeen Church, Co..... sources.nli.ie.
- Web site: Report of the Research Committee for the Year. 10 January 2018. Congress of Archaeological Societies.. Google Books.
- Web site: St Mo-Diomog, Clonkeen · The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain & Ireland. www.crsbi.ac.uk.
- Web site: Cashel & Emly - Early Celtic Monasteries. homepage.eircom.net.
- Web site: The Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland. 10 January 2018. The Society. Google Books.
- Web site: Round about the County of Limerick. James. Dowd. 10 January 1896. McKern. Google Books.
- Web site: 12thc C. - St. Mo-Diomog, Clonkeen, Co. Limerick - Architecture of Limerick - Archiseek - Irish Architecture. 13 March 2017.
