Contacted Tom Moore today about photographs of Clonmacnoise available on websites
and is promised some information which will be passed on.You might try using one of
the search engines like Google.
Tom tells me there is a Clonmacnoise Studies Volume 2 about to be launched.
He mentioned that some people were looking at Saint Ciaran's Well today and mentioned
that one of the figures at the well has lost it's head and it has gone missing. It is a good time
to have it reunited with the body.Anybody know anything about the head.?
Went to Mass in Clofinlough yesterday and afterwards travelled to Belmont. On the way we
passed Clonlyon Castle about midway on LHS.The castle stands on Paddy Egan's land and
was once a stronghold for The Maw ? Coughlans. Ray Walsh tells us that The Maw was once
an Irish Chieftainess and Pat says she heard that The Maw Coughlan had 40 children. She was
assuming The Maw was a he and there were more than one Mrs Maws in production.
Lets hope there is some more concrete information in the new Study volume or else Heather King
or Conor Manning update us.Unfortunately only one wall remains but it looked good in the
sunshine yesterday morning.