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Labbamologa : Church

CountyCork
Grid RefR 763 177
Longitude8° 20' 51.12" W
Latitude52° 18' 37.94" N
Nearest TownBallylanders (6.8 Km)
OS Sheet73
UTM zone29U
UTM x544481.394367
UTM y5795778.5130344
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Visit Notes

Saturday, 12th April 2003

The north church is boring and late. The south church is 7th or 8th century with ante and a fabulous 'megalithic looking' doorway. The north church is aligned east to west, but the southern one is aligned to the Galtee Mountains to the north-east, which from here look like a recumbent female!

The two churches are in an enclosure (again showing the age of the site) formed by a 1.5m high stone wall.

Early reports of six cursing stones inside the north church proved to be out of date, but they are on the site .... somewhere.

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Miscellanea

A little theory: I think the stones used to make the doorway of the 7th Century church may have originated in the avenue (now a 4-poster stone circle) on the hillside above.

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St. Mologa

This lovely page tells the story of St. Mologa. Apparently he was chased out of Ireland by the druids ... probably for pinching some of their avenue to build his church door!
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