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Clonard sits on the frontline of the troubles which erupted in Belfast in August 1969, located as it is, at an Interface area between the mainly Catholic Falls Road district and the mainly Protestant Shankill Road district. At the rear of the monastery was located Bombay Street and Cupar Street which led on to the Shankill Road.
Patrick Egan, C.Ss.R (20 July 1923 – 9 July 2016 [1]) was an Irish Catholic (Redemptorist) priest, notable for being in charge of the Men's Confraternity in Clonard Monastery, Belfast, when the "Troubles" broke out in August 1969. He anointed those who were shot that day and tried to stop a potential massacre of Catholics by calling in ...
Disused Anglican church at the monastic site of Clonard The construction of the monastery in a stained glass window of the church of St. Finian in Clonard. Clonard Abbey (Irish: Mainistir Chluain Ioraird, meaning "Erard's Meadow") was an early medieval monastery situated on the River Boyne in Clonard, County Meath, Ireland.
Opposite was located the Clonard Picture House which closed in 1966. [59] The Diamond Picture House at the corner of Cupar Street closed in 1959. [60] The Arcadian Cinema on Albert Street opened in 1912 but closed in 1960. [61] At the junction with Grosvenor Road is located Dunville Park [62] which was first opened in 1893.
The smaller establishments such as monastic cells and notable monastic granges (particularly those with resident monks) and camerae of the military orders of monks (Knights Templars and Knights Hospitallers) are included.
Disert-moholmoc Monastery ~≈: early monastic site, possibly located in County Meath possibly Staholmog, infra: Diore-mac-Aidmecain Monastery ~ early monastic site, nuns, founded 6th century (in the time of St Finnian of Clonard) St Lassara the virgin _____ Dairemacnaidmecain: Donacarney Monastery nuns, ruins purportedly a nunnery [notes 5 ...
St. Finnian imparting his blessing to the Twelve Apostles of Ireland. The Twelve Apostles of Ireland (also known as Twelve Apostles of Erin, Irish: Dhá Aspal Déag na hÉireann) were twelve early Irish monastic saints of the sixth century who studied under St Finnian (d. 549) at his famous monastic school Clonard Abbey at Cluain-Eraird (Erard's Meadow), now Clonard in County Meath.
Clonard (Irish: Cluain Ioraird, meaning 'Iorard's meadow') [2] is a small village in County Meath, Ireland. It lies on the R148 regional road between the towns of Kinnegad and Enfield. This road was the main road between Dublin and Galway until the construction of the M4 motorway. It is still used by traffic avoiding the toll on the M4. Clonard ...