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Aghaboe is a Roman Catholic parish in County Laois. It is one of the parishes of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Ossory. [1] The parish is named after Aghaboe abbey which was founded in the 6th century by St. Canice and whose ruins are still visible in the hamlet of Aghaboe.
The Abbey of Aghaboe is one of the most important of the abbeys and priories in County Laois. It was founded in the kingdom of Osraige by St. Canice in the 6th century. In his Vita Sancti Columbae (Life of St. Columba ), Adomnán refers to the abbey, saying that its name means a (little field) of the cow: " quod Latine Campulus Bovis dicitur ...
Today Aghaboe is a hamlet in County Laois where pilgrims still visit the ruins of the ancient monastery and an Anglican church (Church of Ireland) is dedicated to its patron, St. Canice (Kenneth). A Catholic church in the neighbouring village of Clough is dedicated to him as well.
Although St Kieran of Seir is the primary patron of the Catholic diocese of Ossory, St Canice of Aghaboe i s its secondary patron. It is Canice who has given his name to the city of Kilkenny (Cill Cheannaigh = Canice’s church in Irish). He is also known in Scotland as Kenneth or Kenny.
Aghaboe Abbey. After the original monastery burned in 1234, it was rebuilt as an Augustinian priory. Today a Church of Ireland, which dates from the 1700s, stands where that priory once stood. This church appears to contain some fragments of the Augustinians’ buildings.
The Abbey of Aghaboe is one of the most important of the abbeys and priories in County Laois. It was founded in the kingdom of Osraige by St. Canice in the 6th ... English
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St. Canice is a Church of Ireland church in the hamlet of Aghaboe in County Laois and is named after St Canice, the founder of the Abbey of Aghaboe, whose ruins are adjacent. It belongs to the parish of Rathdowney in the Diocese of Cashel and Ossory.
