The town of Lismore in County Waterford, Ireland, is beautifully
situated on the banks of the river Blackwater and at the foot of
the Knockmealdown mountains. Though much of the town centre
dates from the 19th Century, Lismore's historic roots go back
over a thousand years earlier, to the foundation here in the
year 636 of a monastery by St. Carthage (also known as St.
Mochuda hence the name of our company Lismore Mochuda
Development Co Ltd). Lismore was one of the principal monsteries
of the Irish church. From here in the 7th Century St. Cathaldus
went forth to found a monastery at Taranto in southern Italy. In
the 12th Century Lismore was at the forefront of a great
movement to reform the Irish Church and bring it into line with
continental Europe, a goal that was achieved by a former student
of Lismore named Malachy who as Archbishop of Armagh was Primate
of all Ireland and who after his death was the first Irish saint
to be canonised. Vikings also visited the town and burned the
monastery on eight occasio