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Cloyne (Irish: Cluain) is a small village to the south-east of the town of Midleton in eastern County Cork in Ireland. It is also a Catholic diocese and part of the Church of Ireland diocese combinded with Cork and Ross. Midleton (Irish: Mainistir na Corann, meaning Choir Abbey) is a town in southeastern County Cork, in the Republic of Ireland, which grew up around the monastery founded there in the 12th century by Cistercian monks from Burgundy. ... County Cork (Contae Chorcaí in Irish) is the most southwesterly and the largest of the modern counties of Ireland. ... Pope Pius XI blesses Bishop Stephen Alencastre as fifth Apostolic Vicar of the Hawaiian Islands in a Cathedral of Our Lady of Peace window. ...


The village is notable primarily for two reasons. It is the home-place of the great Cork hurler Christy Ring and historically it had a bishopric.


Christy Ring was born in and grew up in Cloyne. He learned to hurl here but Cloyne didn't have a good team then so he moved to play with Glen Rover in Cork city. But he is buried in Cloyne and has a statue there. Cloyne have a senior hurling team now and will contest the Cork Senior Hurling Championship final in Oct 2004. Defender Diarmuid O'Sullivan is a star player. Christy Ring (December 12, 1920 - March 2, 1979) is regarded as the greatest ever player of the game of hurling. ...


The Catholic Bishop of the Diocese of Cloyne has a Cathedral overlooking Cork harbour in the east-Cork town of Cobh. The Church of Ireland combinded-diocese bishop has his in Cork city. Cobh (An Cóbh in Irish, derived from English the cove) is a seaport in County Cork, Ireland (51°51′ N 8°18′ W). ...


The village of Cloyne has a round tower which is the village's symbol. The round tower at Glendalough, Ireland, is approximately 30 metres tall A round tower was primarily a bell tower, or belfry, as the Irish form of the name cloictheach clearly indicates, and as was proved by George Petrie as long ago as 1845 and never seriously challenged since. ...

See also: List of towns in the Republic of Ireland

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Cloyne was the seat of a Protestant diocese until 1835, when it was united to that of Cork.
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