Aghaboe

Aghaboe (Irish Achadh Bó ) is a town in County Laois, Ireland, on the 73 townlands and Borris in Ossory the two places and Ballycolla with a total of 807 inhabitants counting (as of 2006). The church dates back to the founding of the monastery of the same name by 560 by Canice ( 525-598 ).

Geographical location

The municipality is located west of Abbeyleix, southeast of Roscrea and north of Rathdowney. It extends from Borris -in- Ossory in the northwest to the townland Gortnaclea to the east and to Ballybrophy and Ballycolla in the south. The municipal area is in west-east direction intersected by the M7 between Dublin and Limerick. The most important local link road is the R434. In Ballybrophy is a stop for the Irish railway with connections to Cork, Dublin and Limerick. As already the Irish name implies Achadh Bó (translated: cow pasture ), it is the municipality predominantly gently rolling pasture land, the south of the River Nore and southeast of the River Gully rises and with 187 m finds its highest elevation in Knockseera.

In the early Middle Ages the land was at the northern end of the kingdom of Ossory, and the monastery was one of the most important ecclesiastical sites in addition Seirkieran and Kilkenny, all of which were temporarily headquarters of the diocese of the same name. At this time crossed the highway Slige dala Tara to Limerick the municipality.

History

Among the earliest evidence of the settlement in the municipality include a hillside grave, which was documented in 1907 in the townland Aghaboe, and two Bronze Age Cooking Elements ( fulachta fiadh ) in Fearagh and Ballygeehin Lower that have been, however, in 1955 and 1979 leveled. An artificial hill with possible traces of a hill tomb is located in Farraneglish Glebe. Still recognizable as such Raths from early Christian times are found, inter alia, in Ballycolla and Tintore.

However, larger importance was the area only through the founding of a monastery around 560 by Canice. From about 1052 to 1111 and from 1152 to 1190 Aghaboe became the bishopric of Ossory. After the 1169 invasion of Ireland Aghaboe beginning was among the last areas of northern Ossory, which was conquered by the English. For the most part Aghaboe of Strongbow to Adam de Hereford was awarded as fief to the consideration that he placed five knights available. The entire Ossory, belonged to the time of the present south of County Laois and the north of County Kilkenny, came under the rule of the Marshals. The hitherto prevailing Irish family of MacGillapatricks retreated to the north Ossorys back, in the area of Aghaboe, and became a vassal of the Marshals. During this time, a moth was built in the immediate vicinity of the monastery along with a small fortified settlement that flourished with the help of English settlers. A little further west, in the townland Corraun, a medieval settlement can be identified with the help of aerial photographs residues.

1346 to Dermot MacGillapatrick rose up against the British occupiers and captured on May 5 in a very bloody way, the settlement in Aghaboe and burned it down. However, it succeeded only in 1359 to assume the associated castle. The MacGillapatricks family founded the monastery in 1382 as a new home for the Dominicans and was able to maintain their power in Aghaboe to the reconquest of Ireland in the 16th century. However, your castle erected the MacGillapatricks not Aghaboe, but around 1425 further south near the present village Cullahill.

Aghaboe should remain rural. As a settlement, emphasis should be put Borris -in- Ossory later and Ballycolla made ​​out. Borris -in- Ossory developed at a 1581 first occupied castle that was called House of Borreidge, whose origins probably but dating back to the 15th century and nothing more from the remains.