The “cathedral”, Temple Kelly and Temple Ciarán: notes from the annals

MacDonald, Aidan D. S.

The “cathedral”, Temple Kelly and Temple Ciarán: notes from the annals

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2003

Authors

MacDonald, Aidan D. S.

Publisher

Dúchas, the Heritage Service; The Stationary Office

Abstract

These notes concentrate on three churches-the daimliag, Temple Kelly and Temple Ciarán-for reasons that will, I hope, become sufficiently clear. As my treatment is based primarily on documentary sources rather than on architectural or archaeological evidence, I also hope that the notes, mainly annalistic, will complement previously published work. Unfortunately, I have not had the opportunity of consulting Annette Kehnel's work. I have searched eleven sets of annals for the period 550 to 1200: the Annals of Ulster (AU); the Annals of Tigernach (A. Tig.); the Annals of Inisfallen (AI); the Annals of Loch Cé; the Annals of the Four Masters (AFM); the Annals of Clonmacnoise (A. Clon.); the Annals of Roscrea (A. Rose.); the Chronicum Scotorum (Chron. Scot.); the 'Annals of Boyle' (AB); Miscellaneous Irish annals (AD 1114-1437) (Ó hlnnse 1947); and Fragmentary annals of Ireland (Radner 1978). I have also made some use of the Latin and Irish lives of St Ciarán.

Keywords

Monasticism , St Ciarán , Church history , Early Christian , Early ecclesiastical , Monastic archaeology , Annals of Ulster

Citation

MacDonald, A. D. S. (2003) '‘The “cathedral”, Temple Kelly and Temple Ciarán: notes from the annals’, in King, H. (ed.), Clonmacnoise Studies, Vol 2; Seminar Papers 1998, Dublin: Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government, pp. 125-135. isbn: 0-7557-1793-7