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Teach Mo-Chúa
The delightful village of Timahoe,
has a round tower and museum. It takes its name from Teach Mo-Chúa
from a monastery founded there by St Mo Chúa (d 657) little survives
of the monastery save a fragment of the church and a fine twelfth century
round tower, the tower has a beautiful Romesque doorway.
To the east of the tower is a fifteenth
century church which was converted into a castle in the seventeenth century.
Half a mile west of the town is the Rath of Ballynaclough, a motte and
bailey castle built in 1182 for Meiler fitz Henry by John de Lacy.
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