Lismore, County Waterford

Lismore ( Irish: Lios Mór, ie " large enclosure ") is a town in County Waterford in the south of Ireland.

History

Lismore was founded by the Holy Mochutu ( engl. also Mochuda ), also known as Carthage of Lismore ( ~ 555-637 ). In the year 635 or 636 Mochutu founded a monastery there, the school won national significance. Lismore 1111 was a bishopric before the Synod of Rathbreasail year. The day of serving Church of Ireland, as episcopal Santa Mochutu Cathedral dates back to the 13th century, but was later rebuilt several times.

Is now located on the site of the former monastery of Lismore Castle. The late Archbishop of Armagh in 1129 Ardpatrick Cellach Mac Aodh was buried according to his testamentary wish on in Lismore. 1627 there the significant polymath Robert Boyle was born in 1814 and the Book of Lismore rediscovered, a manuscript from the early 15th century.

Geography and transport

Lismore is located in west County Waterford, near the border with County Cork, on the River Blackwater on the N72 between Dungarvan and Fermoy (where the N72 meets the N8 to Cork City). About a regional road Lismore is connected to the north-eastern Clonmel on the N24. In Census 2002 1.182 people lived in Lismore.

Personalities

• Robert Boyle (1627-1692), naturalist, philosopher and theologian