MOLANA ABBEY\ DAIR INIS (the island of the oak) before any christian arrival dair inis was said to be a druids glen.they moved from here to nearby glendine which today is the site of a christian church.The druids were said to have been there for quite some time after the arrival of christianity .Founded in 501AD by Maol Anfide (Mael the Prophet) who was one of seven sons to Cathal MacHugh, THE KING of Munster in the sixth century. Ruben of Dairinis recorded two hundred years of Church Law, the Collection Canonum Hibernensis before his death c. 725 AD. Later Raymond (le Gros) Fitzgerald(one of the norman knights to arrive in ireland), who had previously supported Dermot MacMurrough, the king of South Leinster to regain his throne, established the Augustinian Priory, the ruins of which remain today. Henry VIII dissolved the Abbey in 1538. By 1587 the Abbey formed part of the landholding of Sir Walter Raleigh, who let a part of it to his enlightened advisor Thomas Hariot. Hariot lived there for several years developing his scientific theories on navigation, optics and mathematics.
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