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Saighir
Saighir (''Seir Kieran''; also named ''Seirkieran'', in Irish ''Saighir Chiaráin''), is a monastic site in Clareen, County Offaly, founded in the 5th century by St. Ciaran the Elder.
==History==
St. Ciaran had been born in pagan Ireland but had left for Rome to receive Christian baptism and study the Scriptures. In Rome for twenty or thirty years, he was ordained a bishop, and returned to Ireland. On the way, he met St. Patrick in Italy and from him received a clapperless bell; whence Patrick told Ciaran to found a church when the bell should miraculously sound, and nearby would be a cold spring. Upon returning to Ireland, he evangelized his paternal kinsmen, the Osraighe, and passed through their territory and over the Slieve Bloom Mountains when he heard the tongueless bell sound, and nearby was a spring of cold water.〔''Bethada Náem nÉrenn'' (''Lives of Irish Saints'') . Charles Plummer (ed), Richard Irvine Best (ed), Second edition, in that the text is reprinted from the corrected sheets of the first edition (1: xliv + 346 pp; vol. 2: 484pp ) Clarendon Press Oxford (1922) (repr. 1968). Found online through UCC CELT, here: http://www.ucc.ie/celt/published/T201000F/index.html〕
The church grew in importance and as one of Ireland's oldest Christian sites, was once the seat of the bishops of Osraighe, and the burial ground for the Dál Birn kings of Osraighe.〔William Carrigan; ''The history and antiquities of the diocese of Ossory'', vol. 2, (1905) p.1. See: http://books.google.com/books?id=L4UNAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA3&lpg=PA3&dq=saighir&source=bl&ots=R9BLGMx8pK&sig=YgTJExV7BGVT6h155DNPP2P67CM&hl=en&sa=X&ei=9kUFVLPzB9e4ggSn3oH4Cw&ved=0CHoQ6AEwEA#v=onepage&q&f=false〕 Several times it was sacked by the Vikings, and later it diminished in importance and the see of Osraighe was moved to Aghaboe, and later still, to Kilkenny where it is today. It was refounded as a priory of the Augustinian Canons c. 1170, and dissolved in 1568. This was the former see of the bishops of Ossory until c. 1052 when it was moved to Aghaboe.〔See Gwynn and Hadcock, Medieval Religious Houses Ireland, p. 194–195.〕
Not much survives of Saighir today. The remaining ruins include the base of a round tower, the base of a 9th-century high cross, some foundations of the priory, remainings of fortifications, a motte of the Anglo-Norman lords, and a small 19th-century church which was erected close to the site of the former church of the priory. Attached to the site are a holy whitethorn bush on which clothes are hung on March 5 in honor of St. Ciarán, and a holy well.
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