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Originally appearing in Volume V06, Page 564 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CLOYNE , a small See also:

market See also:town of Co. See also:Cork, See also:Ireland, in the See also:east See also:parliamentary See also:division, 15 M. E. S. E. of the See also:city of Cork. Pop. (1901) 827. It gives its name to a See also:Roman See also:Catholic See also:diocese, the See also:cathedral of which is at See also:Queenstown. Cloyne was the seat of a See also:Protestant diocese until 1835, when it was See also:united to that of Cork. It was originally a See also:foundation of the 6th See also:century. The cathedral See also:church, dedicated to its founder St See also:Colman, a See also:disciple of St Finbar of Cork, is a See also:plain cruciform See also:building mainly of the 14th century, with an earlier See also:oratory in the See also:churchyard. It contains a few handsome monuments to its former bishops, but until 189o, when a See also:monument was erected, had nothing to preserve the memory of the illustrious Dr See also:George See also:Berkeley, who held the see from 1734 to 1753.

Opposite the cathedral is a very See also:

fine See also:round See also:tower zoo ft. in height, though the conical roof has See also:long been destroyed. The Roman Catholic church is a spacious building of the See also:early r9th century. The town was several times plundered by the Danes in the 9th century; it was laid See also:waste by Dermot O'Brien in 1071, and was burned in 1137. In 1430 the bishopric was united to that of Cork; in 1638 it again became See also:independent, and in 166o it was again united to Cork and See also:Ross. In 1678 it was once more declared independent, and so continued till 1835. The name, Cluain-Uamha, signifies " the meadow of the See also:cave," from the curious See also:limestone caves in the vicinity. The See also:Pipe See also:Roll of Cloyne, compiled by See also:Bishop See also:Swaffham in 1364, is a remarkable See also:record embracing a full See also:account of the feudal tenures of the see, the nature of the impositions, and the duties the See also:puri homines Sancti Colman were See also:bound to perform at a very early See also:period. The roll is preserved in the record See also:office, See also:Dublin. It was edited by See also:Richard Caulfield in 1859.

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