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Killashee Round Tower is an Irish round tower that forms part of the monastic remnants of Killashee, County Kildare, Ireland.[1]

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  1. 39 relations: Annals of the Four Masters, Annals of Ulster, Auxilius of Ireland, Áed Findliath, Catholic Church, Celtic Christianity, Church of Ireland, Clane Friary, County Kildare, Daniel Charles Grose, Dissolution of the monasteries, Dungiven, Engraving, Ferns, County Wexford, Glendalough, Granite, Holy Union Sisters, Holy well, Ireland, Irish round tower, Knights Hospitaller, Laigin, Late Middle Ages, Mill (grinding), Naas, Oratory (worship), Ordnance Survey Ireland, Profanity, Record of Monuments and Places, Republic of Ireland, River Liffey, Roman Catholic Diocese of Kildare and Leighlin, Saint Patrick, Souterrain, St David's Church, Naas, Thomas Luttrell (Irish judge), Uí Bairrche, Victorian architecture, Vikings.

  2. 5th-century establishments in Ireland
  3. Archaeological sites in County Kildare
  4. Christian monasteries established in the 5th century
  5. Church buildings of the Knights Hospitaller
  6. Naas

Annals of the Four Masters

The Annals of the Kingdom of Ireland (Annála Ríoghachta Éireann) or the Annals of the Four Masters (Annála na gCeithre Máistrí) are chronicles of medieval Irish history.

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Annals of Ulster

The Annals of Ulster (Annála Uladh) are annals of medieval Ireland.

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Auxilius of Ireland

Saint Auxilius, or Usaille,Sabine Baring-Gould, The Lives of the Saints (J. Hodges, 1898), 275.

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Áed Findliath

Áed mac Néill (died 879), called Áed Findliath ("fair-grey Áed"; Modern Irish: Aodh Fionnadhliath) to distinguish him from his paternal grandfather Áed Oirdnide, was king of Ailech and High King of Ireland.

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Catholic Church

The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.28 to 1.39 billion baptized Catholics worldwide as of 2024.

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Celtic Christianity

Celtic Christianity is a form of Christianity that was common, or held to be common, across the Celtic-speaking world during the Early Middle Ages. Killashee Round Tower and Celtic Christianity are 5th-century establishments in Ireland.

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Church of Ireland

The Church of Ireland (Eaglais na hÉireann,; Kirk o Airlann) is a Christian church in Ireland, and an autonomous province of the Anglican Communion.

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Clane Friary

Clane Friary, also called Clane Abbey, is a former friary of the Order of Friars Minor Conventual located in Clane, Ireland. Killashee Round Tower and Clane Friary are archaeological sites in County Kildare.

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County Kildare

County Kildare (Contae Chill Dara) is a county in Ireland.

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Daniel Charles Grose

Daniel Charles Grose (1832 – 1900) was a prolific Canadian-American painter of the Hudson River School who was active between 1864 and 1900.

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Dissolution of the monasteries

The dissolution of the monasteries, occasionally referred to as the suppression of the monasteries, was the set of administrative and legal processes between 1536 and 1541, by which Henry VIII disbanded Catholic monasteries, priories, convents, and friaries in England, Wales, and Ireland; seized their wealth; disposed of their assets; and provided for their former personnel and functions.

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Dungiven

Dungiven is a small town, townland and civil parish in County Londonderry, Northern Ireland.

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Engraving

Engraving is the practice of incising a design on a hard, usually flat surface by cutting grooves into it with a burin.

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Ferns, County Wexford

Ferns (short for Fearna Mór Maedhóg) is a historic town in north County Wexford, Ireland.

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Glendalough

Glendalough is a glacial valley in County Wicklow, Ireland, renowned for an Early Medieval monastic settlement founded in the 6th century by St Kevin. Killashee Round Tower and Glendalough are Christian monasteries in the Republic of Ireland.

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Granite

Granite is a coarse-grained (phaneritic) intrusive igneous rock composed mostly of quartz, alkali feldspar, and plagioclase.

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Holy Union Sisters

The Holy Union Sisters, officially known as the Sisters of the Holy Union of the Sacred Hearts (Sœurs de la Sainte Union des Sacrés Coeurs), are a religious congregation of women in the Roman Catholic Church founded at Douai, France, in 1842, by Jean Baptiste Debrabant (1801 - 1889).

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Holy well

A holy well or sacred spring is a well, spring or small pool of water revered either in a Christian or pagan context, sometimes both.

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Ireland

Ireland (Éire; Ulster-Scots: Airlann) is an island in the North Atlantic Ocean, in north-western Europe.

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Irish round tower

Irish round towers (Cloigtheach (singular), Cloigthithe (plural); literally 'bell house') are early medieval stone towers of a type found mainly in Ireland, with two in Scotland and one on the Isle of Man.

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Knights Hospitaller

The Order of Knights of the Hospital of Saint John of Jerusalem (Ordo Fratrum Hospitalis Sancti Ioannis Hierosolymitani), commonly known as the Knights Hospitaller, is a Catholic military order.

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Laigin

The Laigin, modern spelling Laighin, were a Gaelic population group of early Ireland.

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Late Middle Ages

The late Middle Ages or late medieval period was the period of European history lasting from AD 1300 to 1500.

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Mill (grinding)

A mill is a device, often a structure, machine or kitchen appliance, that breaks solid materials into smaller pieces by grinding, crushing, or cutting.

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Naas

Naas (Nás na Ríogh or an Nás) is the county town of County Kildare in Ireland.

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Oratory (worship)

In the canon law of the Catholic Church, an oratory is a place which is set aside by permission of an ordinary for divine worship, for the convenience of some community or group of the faithful who assemble there, but to which other members of the faithful may have access with the consent of the competent superior.

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Ordnance Survey Ireland

Ordnance Survey Ireland (OSI; Suirbhéireacht Ordanáis Éireann) was the national mapping agency of the Republic of Ireland.

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Profanity

Profanity, also known as swearing, cursing, or cussing, involves the use of notionally offensive words for a variety of purposes, including to demonstrate disrespect or negativity, to relieve pain, to express a strong emotion, as a grammatical intensifier or emphasis, or to express informality or conversational intimacy.

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Record of Monuments and Places

The Record of Monuments and Places (RMP; Taifead ar Shéadchomharthaí agus Áiteanna) is a list of historical and archaeological sites the Republic of Ireland established under the National Monuments Acts.

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Republic of Ireland

Ireland (Éire), also known as the Republic of Ireland (Poblacht na hÉireann), is a country in north-western Europe consisting of 26 of the 32 counties of the island of Ireland.

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River Liffey

The River Liffey (Irish: An Life, historically An Ruirthe(a)ch) is a river in eastern Ireland that ultimately flows through the centre of Dublin to its mouth within Dublin Bay.

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Roman Catholic Diocese of Kildare and Leighlin

The Diocese of Kildare and Leighlin (Dioecesis Kildarensis et Leighlinensis; Deoise Chill Dara agus Leithghlinn) is a Latin Church diocese of the Catholic Church in eastern Ireland.

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Saint Patrick

Saint Patrick (Patricius; Pádraig or; Padrig) was a fifth-century Romano-British Christian missionary and bishop in Ireland.

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Souterrain

Souterrain (from French sous terrain, meaning "under ground") is a name given by archaeologists to a type of underground structure associated mainly with the European Atlantic Iron Age.

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St David's Church, Naas

St David's Church, Naas is a Church of Ireland church in Naas, Ireland. Killashee Round Tower and St David's Church, Naas are Naas.

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Thomas Luttrell (Irish judge)

Sir Thomas Luttrell (born before 1490 – died 1554) was a wealthy Anglo-Irish landowner of the sixteenth-century Irish Pale.

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Uí Bairrche

Uí Bairrche (Uí Bhairrche) was an Irish kin-based group that originally held lands in the south of the ancient province of Leinster (or Cóiced Laigen "the Fifth of the Laigin").

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Victorian architecture

Victorian architecture is a series of architectural revival styles in the mid-to-late 19th century.

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Vikings

Vikings were seafaring people originally from Scandinavia (present-day Denmark, Norway, and Sweden), who from the late 8th to the late 11th centuries raided, pirated, traded, and settled throughout parts of Europe.

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See also

5th-century establishments in Ireland

Archaeological sites in County Kildare

Christian monasteries established in the 5th century

Church buildings of the Knights Hospitaller

Naas

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killashee_Round_Tower

Also known as Killashee Monastery, Killashee, County Kildare.