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Tallaght ( / ˈtælə / TAL-ə; Irish: Tamhlacht, IPA: [ˈt̪ˠəul̪ˠəxt̪ˠ]) is the largest settlement, and county town, of South Dublin, Ireland, and the largest satellite town of Dublin. The central village area was the site of a monastic settlement from at least the 8th century, which became one of medieval Ireland's more important ...
- 90 m (300 ft)
- South Dublin
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TALLAGHT, ABBEY OF Former Irish monastery, present-day site of a Dominican college, about five miles south of Dublin, Ireland. It was founded in 774 by the reformer, St. Maelruain, as a protest against the contemporary worldly spirit found in many Irish monasteries. The community was sworn to observe the primitive Irish monastic rule in all its ...
Tallaght Monastery. Tallaght Monastery ( Latin: Monasterium Tamlactense) [1] was a Christian monastery founded in the eighth century by Máel Ruain, at a site called Tallaght, a few miles south west of present-day Dublin, Ireland. It operated until the Protestant Reformation .
Districts. "Greater Tallaght" comprises Tallaght village and a range of areas that were formerly small settlements (Jobstown, Old Bawn, Kilnamanagh) and rural townlands, all developed in recent decades. The main village of Tallaght lies west of the Tallaght Bypass (N81). It stretches from Main Road and Main Street to the Abberley Court Hotel at ...
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Irish monastery. Tallaght, MONASTERY OF .—The name Tallaght (Irish Tamlachta ), derived from tam, plague, and lecht, stone monument, records the burial place of some of the earliest inhabitants of Ireland, the Parthalonians, who were swept off by a plague about A.M. 2600. Tallaght is situated in the barony of Uppercross, 5 miles south of Dublin.
