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Early medieval church (WM007-045----) and graveyard at Faughalstown, reputedly founded in the sixth-century by Diarmuid, son of Lughna, possibly descended from the Uí Fiachrach clan. Faughalstown or Fochlaid was possibly a proprietory church of the Uí Fiachrach Cúile Fobair (Masterson 1998, 44-5). Diarmuid was the…
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From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record WM007-045001
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- Rev William Falkiner (Life time: d 1910), Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
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- Maker not stated on source page, en.wikipedia.org
- National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
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- Algirdas at Lithuanian Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
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