School: Killina (Pres. Convent)
- Location:
- Killina, Co. Offaly
- Teacher: Sisters
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0805, Page 140
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- (continued from previous page)Roderick O Melaghlin and his kinsmen "made a nocturnal attack on Moy Gallen, in Delvin, and burned and plundered the plain. They were pursued by Malacy Ralbh O'Madden, and by Art Mac Coghlan, who gave them battle at Gallen, in which Cormac O'Melaghlin, the brother of Roderick, together with thirteen men of the chiefs of his people, were slain and drowned on that occasion." However, notwithstanding those numerous misfortunes Gallen existed when Colgan, the Franciscan, wrote, at which time it belonged to the Canons of Saint Augustine. We learn that by Inquisition taken at Birr, the 14th of October, 1619, then then late Viscount Moore of Drogheda, was found to have been seized "of the lately dissolved monastery or abbey of Canons of Gallen . . ." Like so many of the other religious houses of those days, the Monastery of Gallen had ceased to exist!Abbey of GlinThe Abbey of Gleane or Glin, was on the river Brosna, not far from the monastery of Gallen. Its founder was Saint Diermit. We learn that A.D. 563 "Saint Comgan" whose mother's name was Ethnea, succeeded St. Diermit, and died in a respectable old ago on the 27th of February this year." St. Murgenius, the abbot died on the 27th of January, but the year is not recorded. Maelmaedoc, a learned scribe of "Gleannusen," died A.D. 915, and in A.D. 1016 Coemcormac, a professor in this abbey, died. The abbey was plundered A.D. 1041, and it was destroyed by fire A.D.1077. Conchouran, a professor of Glin Abbey died A.D. 1082. Archall says that Saint Trena, or Trien, was Abbot of Killelga or Killalga, near Glin about the end of the fifth or beginning of the sixth century. It appears that there are ruins of several other abbeys in this neighbourhood.Monastery of LemanaghanA few miles(continues on next page)
