Terryglass

Terryglass (Tir Dha Ghlas) National Winner Tidy Towns Competition 1983 and 1997.
Terryglass which Adamnan in his "Life of St. Columba" translates Ager-duorum-rivorum, the land of the two streams.

It is the first stopping point on the return down Lough DergsEastern shore. Founded soon after St.Patrick's time by one of the many St.Colums, it became a centre of learning and produced, about 1150, the Book of Leinster now in Trinity College Dublin, an important collection of History, Tales and Poems in Middle Irish including the Brown Bull of Cooley.

A few years later the abbey was the victim of an attack by Galway Irish, and the monks left it for ever, taking their possessions to Lorrha. From the keep of the Butler (Norman) castle 12th C, the last of the O'Kennedys, local chiefs, was thrown to his death in the water below. Terryglass situated beside Lough Derg provides an extensive and modern harbouring facility.

Above left a monument at Terryglass by the Lough, to John A. Weaving with the inscription: "Erected by the I.W.A.I. and his many friends to JOHN A WEAVING naturalist and lover of the Shannon 1911 - 1987".
Terryglass is associated with "The Poet of Connacht".