Church Builder
As king of Leinster, in 1140-70 Dermot commissioned Irish Romanesque churches and abbeys at:
- Baltinglass - a Cistercian abbey (1148)
- Glendalough
- Ferns (his capital - St Mary's Abbey Augustinian Order)
- Killeshin
He sponsored convents (nunneries) at Dublin (St Mary's, 1146), and in c.1151 two more at Aghade, County Carlow and at Kilculliheen near Waterford city.
He also sponsored the successful career of churchman St Lawrence O'Toole (Lorcan Ua Tuathail). He married O'Toole's half-sister Mor in 1153 and presided at the synod of Clane in 1161 when O'Toole was installed as archbishop of Dublin.
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