Old Leighlin

Old Leighlin /ˈlɒklɪn/ (Irish: Seanleithghlinn),[1] also Oldleighlin, is a village, civil parish and townland in County Carlow, Ireland.

The site was at one time one of the foremost monastic houses in Leinster, with 1,500 monks in residence.

It is named after Molaise of Leighlin and was built on the site of an old monastic church founded here in 632 AD.

[2] Nearby are a holy well, which is still venerated, and small granite undecorated wheeled high cross with edge mouldings.

[3] The parliamentary constituency of Old Leighlin in the pre-1800 Irish House of Commons was a bishop's borough where the Church of Ireland Bishop of Ferns and Leighlin controlled the selection of the two Members of Parliament.