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Innisfallen Island

location_on Killarney, County Kerry, Ireland
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About Innisfallen Island

Innisfallen or Inishfallen is an island in Lough Leane; one of the 3 Lakes of Killarney in County Kerry, Ireland. Innisfallen is home to the ruins of Innisfallen Abbey, one of the maximum brilliant archaeological stays courting from the early Christian duration discovered within the Killarney National Park. The monastery turned into founded in 640 with the aid of St. Finian the Leper, and changed into occupied for approximately 950 years. Over a length of approximately 300 of these, the clergymen wrote the Annals of Innisfallen, which chronicle the early records of Ireland because it changed into recognised to the monks.

The monks had been dispossessed of the abbey on August 18, 1594, through Elizabeth I. The region of the monastery on the island is thought to have given rise to the name Lough Leane, which in English way "Lake of Learning". According to lifestyle the Irish High King Brian Boru acquired his training at Innisfallen under Maelsuthain O'Carroll. Maelsuthain has been credited because the feasible originator of the Annals.

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