School: Clochar na Trócaire, Drangan (roll number 7232)

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1. The Great Battle of 852 - St Sinech an Early Martyr (continued)

   

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   of the Danish invasion and for centuries after Ireland was thickly wooded. Gerald Barry a writer of the 12th century states that in his time the open plains of Ireland were of small extent in comparison with the woodlands.
   Eoghanacth of Cashel the name of the territory in which Crohane was situated was so called from Eoghan or Owen son of Ailioll Olum, King of Munster in the 3rd century. The boundaries of this ancient territory are now unknown.
   An ecclesiastical establishment must have existed at an early period in Crohane for we find St. Sinech of Crohane mentioned in the old Irish Martyrologies. In the Feilire of Aengus written about the year 800, she is thus commemorated

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   History Edit

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Mary Horan

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Knockuragh, Co. Tipperary

   Informant

   Mrs Mary Delany

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Ballyphilip, Co. Tipperary