Clane

Clane is a metropolis in County Kildare, Ireland, 35.Four km from Dublin. Its populace of 7,280 makes it the 8th largest city in Kildare and the 66th biggest in Ireland. It is at the River Liffey. Clane gives its name to the associated townland, civil parish, electoral division and barony. Clane is positioned at the crossroads of the R403 and R407 local roads. The metropolis maximum possibly owes its beginning to the muse of Clane Friary within the sixth century, from about 520 A.D., whilst Ailbe of Emly, Bishop of Ferns, founded an Abbey in Clane, and made St. Senchel the Elder its first Abbot.

Saint Ultan Tua, who used to position a stone into his mouth to save you him from talking in the course of Lent, and his brother Fotharnaise, are stated to were buried in Clane. They have been brothers of Maighend, Abbot of Kilmainham, from whom the parish and church of Mainham, close to Clane, have been likely referred to as. King Mesgegra's Mound claims hyperlinks to the legendary first-century AD king Mesgegra of Leinster and changed into later used by Normans.