CLOYNE  , a small

market town of Co . Cork, Ireland, in the east parliamentary division, 15 M . E . S . E. of the city of Cork . Pop . (1901) 827 . It gives its name to a Roman Catholic diocese, the cathedral of which is at Queenstown . Cloyne was the seat of a Protestant diocese until 1835, when it was united to that of Cork . It was originally a foundation of the 6th century . The cathedral church, dedicated to its founder St Colman, a disciple of St Finbar of Cork, is a plain cruciform building mainly of the 14th century, with an earlier oratory in the churchyard . It contains a few handsome monuments to its former bishops, but until 189o, when a monument was erected, had nothing to preserve the memory of the illustrious Dr George Berkeley, who held the see from 1734 to 1753 .

Opposite the cathedral is a very

fine round tower zoo ft. in height, though the conical roof has long been destroyed . The Roman Catholic church is a spacious building of the early r9th century . The town was several times plundered by the Danes in the 9th century; it was laid waste by Dermot O'Brien in 1071, and was burned in 1137 . In 1430 the bishopric was united to that of Cork; in 1638 it again became independent, and in 166o it was again united to Cork and Ross . In 1678 it was once more declared independent, and so continued till 1835 . The name, Cluain-Uamha, signifies " the meadow of the cave," from the curious limestone caves in the vicinity . The Pipe Roll of Cloyne, compiled by Bishop Swaffham in 1364, is a remarkable record embracing a full account of the feudal tenures of the see, the nature of the impositions, and the duties the puri homines Sancti Colman were bound to perform at a very early period . The roll is preserved in the record office, Dublin . It was edited by Richard Caulfield in 1859 .