Aghaboe Abbey

The Abbey of Aghaboe is one of the maximum crucial of the abbeys and priories in County Laois. It become based in the state of Osraige through St. Canice inside the sixth century. In his Vita Sancti Columbae, Adomnan refers to the abbey, pronouncing that its name approach a of the cow: "quod Latine Campulus Bovis dicitur, Scotice vero Achadh-bou". The abbey grew into a primary centre of learning, trade and agriculture. Among the priests from the abbey become St. Virgilius, a referred to geometer and astronomer who became abbot before he left Ireland and built the cathedral at Salzburg in Austria in the 8th century.

He changed into canonized in 1233. The Annals of Inisfallen word that "Repose of Scandlan grandson of Tadc, abbot of Achad Bo" happened inside the yr 782. A daughter house of Aghaboe was later constructed at Kilkenny, the capital of Osraige. The Synod of Rathbreasail in 1111, which first divided Ireland into territorial dioceses, protected both Aghaboe and Kilkenny in the Diocese of Ossory, with the episcopal see at Kilkenny, whose abbey church became St Canice's Cathedral.