The Church and Shrine of St. Manchán (Classic Reprint)

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Lemanaghan is the name of a graveyard and group of ruins in the townland and parish of the same denomina tion, barony ofgarrycastle, King's County, four miles south west from the town of Clara, and about as much, as the crow ?ies, across a large bog, north-west from the well known ancient remains at Rahen. Which Dr. Petrie has described and illustrated Round Towers, 241, As Miss Stokes has shown in her work on Christian Ih scriptions in the Irish Language , the in?uence of the great school of religious art established at Clonmacnois can be traced for a considerable distance at each side of the Shannon, as well as up and down its stream, and hence we are prepared to find a similarity of style pervading what has come down to us of the ancient ecclesiastical remains of the district. Indeed, even so far down the Shannon as Lough Derg, we find in the ruins of the ancient parish Church of Killodiernan, Co. Tipperary, an almost exact reproduction of the doorway of Temple connor at Clon macnois. We should not, therefore, be surprised to find a high style of art exhibited by what remains of a Shrine connected with the obscure ecclesiastical settlement at Lemanaghan, closely connected as it was with St. Ciaran's great foundation.