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Killeshin
The church at '''Killeshin''' is largely twelfth century in date, although some parts show evidence of later rebuilding, including a late Gothic east window. Probably the portal and north window belong to c.1150, and post-date Diarmait Mac Murchada's blinding and killing of 17 Leinster nobles, including three of the local Uí Barraiche dynasty, in whose locality the church stood. Scholars consider the church to be typical of the Hiberno-Romanesque style, as it combines a simple plan (nave and chancel), with antae (a feature of pre-Romanesque stone buildings in Ireland), with an elaborately carved west portal.

==History==
The monastery of Glenn Uisin was founded by Diarmait mac Siabairr, a saint of the local Uí Barraiche family, and the [[Annals of Tigernach]] record its plundering, and the destruction of an earlier wooden church in 1041, in revenge for its patrons&#8217;’ involvement in the burning of [[Ferns, Ireland|Ferns]].  However, it seems that by the time of the Romanesque portal, ties with the Uí Barraiche had been severed almost completely, as the inscription reads: ORAIT DO DIARMAIT RI LAGEN - 'a prayer for Diarmait, king of Leinster', almost certainly [[Diarmait Mac Murchada]].

==The Portal==
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==External links==
*[[RSAI]] [http://www.rsai.ie/index.cfm?action=obj.display&obj_id=107 page on Killeshin]

[[Category:Buildings and structures in Laois]]