The
Monastery of Ennisnag was an early Irish
Christian monastery, and later a medieval
prebendal
church, located at Ennisnag, in
County Kilkenny,
Ireland. Little is known about the monastic community here.
Canon William Carrigan suggested "
an ancient Church stood on the site from time immemorial to after the Cromwellian era".
John O'Hanlon reported that
Diocese of Ossory ecclesiastical records names
Saint Manchan as patron saint writing "
at Inisnag, diocese of Ossory, St. Manchan, whose feast occurs on the 14th of February, was venerated as a patron (Statuta Dioecesis Ossoriensis)". So it was probably founded by
Manchán of Mohill in the 5th or 6th century. The
monastery of Inis-Snaig was probably small in scale. The
church of
Inisnag was recorded as
prebendal of Ossory diocese, in the
Taxatio Ecclesiastica of AD 1291–1292, and was granted on "the authority of
Pope Nicholas IV, 1291 [liber ruber Ossoriensis]". The
medieval church fell into ruins after the
Dissolution of the Monasteries, and upheavals of 17th century
Ireland. The medieval monastery and church are no longer extant. From the ruins, St Peter's church, of
Protestant denomination, was established in the early 19th century. == Architecture==