Achadh na hUinseann

Aghnahunshin, whose Irish name Achadh na hUinseann refers to a field where ash trees grew, lies in the townlands of Mohill civil parish in County Leitrim. The wider Mohill region was settled by the Conmaicne Réin, a Gaelic dynasty that maintained an unbroken presence for nearly a thousand years until the early seventeenth century. St. Manchan founded the abbey at Mohill circa 608 AD and died in...