crosses historical around portlaoise

The first monastery was founded by St. Fiach, who was a bishop of all Leinster during St. Patrick's lifetime. One of the most famous abbots was Aedh who dedicated a life of St. Patrick, and who made the monastery a centre for studies dealing with St. Patrick.

The scant remains include two tall but undecorated granite crosses and a medieval church with pointed side-door....

In the cemetery is a late medieval church. the round-headed south window may have come from an earlier church on the same site. The trunk of a cross with a coat of arms and an inscription, put up in 1622 in memory of Florence Fitzpatrick and his wife, has been re-erected near the National School nearby....