Collann

Collann derives from cuilleann ('slope'), though early sources variously describe it as 'place of hazles' and 'woody,' and the precise etymology remains unclear. Collon's recorded history begins in medieval times, when it belonged to Mellifont Abbey, Ireland's first Cistercian monastery founded in 1142 by Saint Malachy under influence of Saint Bernard of Clairvaux. By 1177, the village appeared...