Clonmacnoise, Co Offaly nr Athlone - Cross Cathedral - Cardall postcard c.1960s

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• Picture / Image:  Cross of the Scriptures and the Cathedral, Clonmacnois[e] [Co. Offaly]
• Publisher: Cardall Ltd.
• Postally used: no?
• Stamp:  2&half p defin [unfranked]
• Postmark(s): unfranked
• Sent to:  London
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Clonmacnoise (Cluain Mhic Nóis in Irish) is a ruined monastery situated in County Offaly in Ireland on the River Shannon south of Athlone, founded in 544 by Saint Ciarán, a young man from Rathcroghan, County Roscommon.[2] Until the 9th century it had close associations with the kings of Connacht. Saint Ciarán chose[citation needed] to found the monastery in the ancient territory of Ui Maine at a point where the major East-West land route (Slighe Mhor) meets the River Shannon after crossing the bogs of Central Ireland known as the Esker Riada.[3] The strategic location of the monastery helped it become a major centre of religion, learning, craftsmanship, and trade by the 9th century; and together with Clonard it was the most famous places in Ireland, visited by scholars from all over Europe.[citation needed] From the ninth until the eleventh century it was allied with the kings of Meath. Many of the high kings of Tara (ardrí) and of Connacht were buried here.

The Irish government's Office of Public Works manages the preserved ruin. An Interpretive Centre is open to the public, the graveyard is in use and religious services take place in a modern chapel.