Aghaboe
| Aghaboe Achadh Bhó | |
|---|---|
| hamlet | |
  Aghaboe Location in Ireland | |
| Coordinates: 52°55′20″N 7°30′51″W / 52.9221008°N 7.5142637°WCoordinates: 52°55′20″N 7°30′51″W / 52.9221008°N 7.5142637°W | |
| Country | Ireland |
| Province | Leinster |
| County | County Laois |
Aghaboe (Irish: Achadh Bhó, meaning "Ox's Field") is a hamlet in County Laois, Ireland. It is located on the R434 regional road in the rural hinterland west of the town of Abbeyleix.
It contains the ruins of the Abbey of Aghaboe which was founded by St. Canice in Ossory in the 6th century and, beside it, the Church of Ireland church of St. Canice. At some point before the Norman invasion of Ireland, Aghaboe Abbey succeeded Seirkieran as the principle abbey in Ossory. Canice built a daughter house of Aghaboe was at Kilkenny, the capital of Ossory. The Synod of Rathbreasail in 1111, which first divided Ireland into territorial dioceses, included both Aghaboe and Kilkenny in the Diocese of Ossory, with the episcopal see at Kilkenny, whose abbey church became St Canice's Cathedral. The erroneous belief that the see was originally at Aghaboe and later transferred to Kilkenny is traced by John Bradley to a 16th-century misinterpretation of a 13th-century property transfer.[1]
Aghaboe is famous as being the first seat of St. Feargal, and who later traveled through Francia and became bishop of Salzburg, Austria.
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Wikivoyage has a travel guide for Aghaboe. |
- ↑ Bradley, John (2015). "Pulp Facts and Core Fictions; Translating a Cathedral from Aghaboe to Kilkenny". In Purcell, Emer; MacCotter, Paul; Nyhan, Julianne; Sheehan, John. Clerics, Kings and Vikings: Essays on Medieval Ireland in Honour of Donnchadh Ó Corráin. Four Courts Press. pp. 169–184. ISBN 9781846822797.