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• Turlough

St Tiernan (550) founded a monastery here on the Errew peninsula on Lough Conn. The word means = ‘church of the black nun’. St Leogar was abbot of the monastery of Errew. There are the ruins of a church close to the Lough.

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See also:

• Irish Monasticism

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