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The 6 Most Important Early Medieval Irish Monastic Schools

Imagine a tiny island on the edge of the world becoming a superpower of learning, where monks in remote stone huts saved knowledge for everyone. Lismore, a monastic school founded by Mochuda around 636 AD, became a city of monks and a magnet for students from across Ireland, Britain, and Europe. The school offered a vast curriculum, including Scripture, Latin, Greek, mathematics, astronomy, and medicine, and produced exquisite manuscripts that preserved ancient texts and knowledge. Durrow, another influential monastery, was founded by Saint Columba around 553 AD and became a center of learning and spiritual devotion, producing the magnificent Book of Durrow. These Irish monastic schools, like Lismore and Durrow, played a crucial role in preserving and advancing knowledge, and their legacy continued to spread far and wide through the students they trained and the traditions they established.