Nuns Chapel The Nuns Church lies about 500 yards to the east beyond the new cemetry. Originally built in the 10th century, it was restored in 1167 by Devorgilla, wife of Tiernan O' Rourke, Prince of Breifne, whose association with Dermot Mac Murrough led to the coming of the Normans to Ireland.
The remains of this church are one of the finest existing examples of Irish Romanesque architecture. The west doorway and the chancel arch have an abundance of stone carving of great beauty and variety.
	CARVING The Chancel of the Nuns Church has a small figure of a woman carved there called a "Sheelangig". It consists of a grotesque but highly finished face embraced by up-turned legs. Various small faces and animal heads also ornament the arch, but they are all less elaborate than the acrobatic sheela. This is the only church outside the main graveyard. There are traces of a causeway leading to it. It has a small nave and Chancel Church, the only one of its kind at Clonmacnoise except Temple Finghin which it closely resembles in style. Both churches are probably of roughly the same date, early in the 2nd half of the 12th century. The building was restored in 1867 by the Kilkenny Archaelogical Society. Blank stones were used in the chancel Arch to replace those which were missing.