St Maelruan’s Church

St Maelruan's Church occupies the site of a major monastery founded in AD 769 by St Máel Ruain, when the nobleman Cellach of Uí Donnchada granted land in Tallaght, southwest Dublin. The monastery became the spiritual headquarters of the Céli Dé reform movement, which emphasized strict communal monastic life and intensive daily psalm recitation. St Máel Ruain, who died in AD 792, established a l...