Clonmore Graveyard

Clonmore Graveyard stands on the site of an Early Christian monastery founded by Saint Aidan (Maedog) in the late 6th or early 7th century for canons of the Augustinian order. The place-name derives from Irish Cluain Mór, meaning "great meadow or pasture," reflecting the fertile landscape of this parish in the Barony of Bantry, south-southwest of Enniscorthy. The monastery endured severe Viking...