Old Leighlin/ˈlɒklɪn/ (Irish: Seanleithghlinn),[1] also Oldleighlin, is a village, civil parish and townland in County Carlow, Ireland. The village is 3.5 km (2 mi) west of Leighlinbridge. The site was at one time one of the foremost monastic houses in Leinster, with 1,500 monks in residence. It was the location for a church synod in AD 630, which decided that the Irish church should follow Roman as opposed to Celtic dating conventions for determining the date of Easter.[2]
St Laserian's Cathedral was the cathedral of the diocese of Leighlin, now merged with neighbouring dioceses in the Church of Ireland. It is named after Molaise of Leighlin and was built on the site of an old monastic church founded here in 632 AD. It is one of the smallest Irish medieval cathedrals.[2] Nearby are a holy well, which is still venerated, and small granite undecorated wheeled high cross with edge mouldings.[3]
The parliamentary constituency of Old Leighlin in the pre-1800 Irish House of Commons was a bishop's borough where the Church of Ireland Bishop of Ferns and Leighlin controlled the selection of the two Members of Parliament.[4]
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OldLeighlin /ˈlɒklɪn/ (Irish: Seanleithghlinn), also Oldleighlin, is a village, civil parish and townland in County Carlow, Ireland. The village is 3...
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Kildare and Leighlin. Denis Nulty is the current bishop of Kildare and Leighlin. The 12th-century St Laserian's Cathedral in OldLeighlin was formerly...
Molaise of Leighlin, also Laisrén or Laserian (died ca. 639), was an early Irish saint and abbot of Lethglenn or Leithglenn, now OldLeighlin in County...
of Easter. This monastery later evolved into St Laserian's Cathedral, OldLeighlin. This abbot also held authority at Killamery – Cell Lamraide in County...
The Diocese of Kildare and Leighlin (/ˈlɔːxlɪn/; Latin: Dioecesis Kildarensis et Leighlinensis; Irish: Deoise Chill Dara agus Leithghlinn) is a Latin Church...
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portal The Lord Bishop of Leighlin was a separate episcopal title which took its name after the small town of OldLeighlin in County Carlow, Ireland....
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second Viscount. He sat in the Irish Parliament as the representative for OldLeighlin from 1783 to 1790. In 1806 he was created Earl of Gosford in the Peerage...
Portarlington from 1784 to 1790, Tralee (again) from 1790 to 1798 and OldLeighlin from 1798 until the union with Great Britain in 1801. From the beginning...
Meredith, a Welsh clergyman who went to Ireland in 1584 and became Bishop of Leighlin. Sidney Lee ed., Dictionary of National Biography, vol. XXXVII (1894) pp...
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organ of the village.[citation needed] The passages were taken from the old school house in the village (now a shop). The general story suggests that...
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Ireland. He was succeeded by his son, the second Viscount. He represented OldLeighlin in the Irish House of Commons and served as Auditor-General of Ireland...
around the 7th century, the ruins of which are still in evidence today. OldLeighlin was the site of one of the largest monastic settlements in Ireland and...
compete at underage level in Carlow. Players from neighbouring villages OldLeighlin and Ballinabranna combine with Leighlinbridge to play for Micheal Davits...
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