The Memorial Slabs of Clonmacnois. King’s County: With an Appendix on the Materials for History of the Monastery. Dublin: University Press, 1909. First Edition. Pp xxxii, 158. First Edition. Ex library copy, with stamps. Publisher’s green cloth boards, lettered in gilt to spine. A very good copy.

Folded frontispiece map & several full page plates & numerous text drawings.

Clonmacnoise, also known as Cluain Mhic Nóis in Irish, is a ruined monastery situated in County Offaly. It lies along the River Shannon, south of Athlone.

The monastery was founded in 544 by Saint Ciarán. Until the 9th century, Clonmacnoise had close associations with the kings of Connacht.