The famous cities of Ireland . 0^^4!:: i^-?9i-kK^J:ip::><? ^ ^*t< St. Can ices Cathedral. t-\ --Ir/inii^ temple and the fortress were the nurses of its infancy—the civil and ecclesiastical polities contributingequally to the growth of its buildings. To theinquirer as to the period of its foundation I replythat it is coeval with the English Conquest inIreland. Canice, that is Cainneach, whose name is thuscommemorated in Ceall Cainnigh, Kennys Cell, V KILKENNY 137 had, of course, nothing to do with England. Hewas the friend and fellow-worker of Columba, but,unlike that missionary saint,
The famous cities of Ireland . 0^^4!:: i^-?9i-kK^J:ip::><? ^ ^*t< St. Can ices Cathedral. t-\ --Ir/inii^ temple and the fortress were the nurses of its infancy—the civil and ecclesiastical polities contributingequally to the growth of its buildings. To theinquirer as to the period of its foundation I replythat it is coeval with the English Conquest inIreland. Canice, that is Cainneach, whose name is thuscommemorated in Ceall Cainnigh, Kennys Cell, V KILKENNY 137 had, of course, nothing to do with England. Hewas the friend and fellow-worker of Columba, but,unlike that missionary saint, he did not cross thechannel to evangelise heathendom. Living in Ire-land, he made his main foundation in the monasteryat Aghabo, in Queens County. Counties are moderndivisions, but the ecclesiastical boundaries follow oldfrontiers, and the modern diocese of Ossory corre-sponds roughly with the old kingdom or sub-kingdom of that name. Even as an ecclesiastical centre Kilkenny was oflittle note in pre-Norman Irel
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