Editing Timoleague Friary (section)

=== Monastic site ===
The friary sits on a monastic site dedicated to Saint Molaga dating to either the 6th<ref name=":2">{{Cite web|title=Timoleague Abbey|url=https://www.wildatlanticwayonline.com/map-of-cork-wild-atlantic-way/discovery-points/timoleague-abbey/|access-date=2021-08-29|website=Wild Atlantic Way Ireland Map and Guide|language=en-US}}</ref> or 7th century.{{Sfn|Keohane|2020|p=578}} According to legend, this settlement was originally to be formed a mile west of Timoleague, but all work done on that site by day would fall down by morning.<ref>{{Cite news|last=M|first=S|date=1 November 1834|title=Timoleague Abbey|work=The Dublin Penny Journal|url=https://archive.org/details/jstor-30004403/page/n1/mode/2up?view=theater|access-date=29 August 2021}}</ref> Interpreting this as God's will that the friary be built elsewhere, Molaga supposedly placed a blessed candle on a sheaf of corn, and set it down the [[Argideen River]], building his settlement on the spot that it came ashore,{{Sfn|Crowley|2016|p=5}} in an area overlooking [[Courtmacsherry]] Bay.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Timoleague Franciscan Friary {{!}} Monastic Ireland |url=http://www.monastic.ie/history/timoleague-franciscan-friary/ |access-date=2017-05-04 |website=www.monastic.ie |language=en-GB}}</ref> The town derives its Irish name, {{Lang|ga|Teach Molaga}} or "Molaga's House" from the saint.{{Sfn|Cochrane|1912|p=14}}