Clones as a Monastic Site
Clones Town began as a monastic settlement c.500, when St. Tigernach (olso known as St. Tiarnach) founded his monastery there and this was the most important site in Monaghan for centuries afterwards. Clones Abbey, the abbey founded by St. Tiarnach in the 6th century, was dedicated to St. Peter and St. Paul.
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