Ardpatrick

Ardpatrick ( Irish: Ard Pádraig, literally hill of Patrick, sometimes also called Ballingaddy ) is a small village with 387 inhabitants ( as of 2011) in County Limerick in the province of Munster. It is located on the east side of a hill, was the site of an early Christian monastery.

History

According to the information of John Colgan in his Trias Thaumaturga in 1647 and the Monasticon Hibernicum Mervyn Archdall in 1786 Ardpatrick is one of the foundations of St. Patrick. An exact year of the foundation is not known, but reference to Patrick defines the middle of the 5th century near. It is likely, however, that the area was settled earlier because recent research on the basis of aerial photographs show that the land has already been cultivated very early intense around the hill around.

The chronicles of fire trains in the years 1074 and 1114 the 11th and 12th century, the monastery must have had a certain amount of national significance, since the death of two visit, the bishops has been handed down. Ua Suairlig in 1079 and Cellach Mac Aodh in 1129. spite of the invasion of the Normans and the construction of a castle in 1198 the monastery was continued under the management of the family Ua longan. The lands were still 1590 and 1597 performed as a monastic estates.

Parts of the west side of the massive stone church from the 11th or 12th century on the hill and ruins of a round tower are still preserved.

Primary sources

  • Annals of Inisfallen with the entries AI1074.8, AI1079.2, AI1113.2, AI1129.6 and AI1198.3.
  • Chronicon Scotorum with the entry CS1113.
  • Annals of the Four Masters with the entries M1114.12 and M1129.13.

Secondary literature

  • Harold G. Leask, Irish Churches and Monastic Buildings, Volume 1, 1955, page 72 ISBN 0,852,210,167th
  • Aubrey Gwynn and R. Neville Hadcock, Medieval Religious Houses Ireland in 1970, Longman, London. ISBN 0582-11229 -X.
  • Lisa M. Bitel, Isle of the Saints, Monastic Settlement and Christian Community in Early Ireland, 1990, Cork University Press, ISBN 1-85918-017-5 page 39.
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