monastic sites around portlaoise

The site of the sixth-century monastery founded by St. Colman. In the eighteenth-century the Cosbys added a morturary-chancel to the remains of the twelfth-century stone roofed church. Note the memorial on the south wall to Thomas Douglas (1630-1734) declaring 'Blest be ye men who spare these bones, Curst be they who move these stones!'...