Old Leighlin
| Old Leighlin Irish: Seanleithghlinn | |
| County Carlow | |
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 Old Leighlin Cathedral | |
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| Grid reference: | S660655 |
| Location: | 52°44’11"N, 7°1’24"W |
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Old Leighlin is a small town in County Carlow, two miles 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.[1]
St Laserian's Cathedral was the cathedral of the Diocese of Leighlin in the Church of Ireland, but this diocese has now merged with neighbouring dioceses. The cathedral 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 mediæval cathedrals.[1]
Old Leighlin gave its name to a constituency in the pre-1800 Parliament of Ireland, it was a Bishop’s boroughs in which the local Church of Ireland Bishop selected the Member of Parliament.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Old Leighlin. Carlow". ancestry.com. http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~irlcar2/Old_leighlin.htm. Retrieved 8 September 2014.