On a recent trip to Ireland, I visited the ancient site of the monastery of Clonmacnoise, Ireland. Dating back nearly 1,500 years, it is located in County Offaly. The site was chosen circa 545 AD by St. Ciaran. He was the son of an Ulsterman who had settled in Connaught.
Saint Ciaran, before establishing his own monastery in Clonmacnoise, was with St. Enda, a strict teacher and disciplinarian, on the island of Inís Mór off the coast of Galway.
Ideally situated on the River Shannon, Clonmacnoise was founded at the junction of both road and river travel in what was then the Kingdom of Meath. Many of the kings of Connaught, as well as those of Tara, were buried there. Today the site borders the provinces of Connaught, Leinster and Munster.
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