Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Religious house - unclassified
Poulnalour, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Poulnalour
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Friary (in ruins)
- Latest-edition OS map
- Correen Friary (Site of) (1916)
- Coordinates
- 53.00851, -9.03138
- SMR number
- CL010-108004-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Indicated as a rectangular building and named ‘Friary (in ruins)’ on the 1842 OS 6-inch map. Drawn as a broken rectangle and named ‘Correen Friary (site of)’ on the 1897 OS 25-inch plan. Given the same name on the 1920 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, but indicated only with a cross. Listed as ‘Friary’ in the RMP (1996). Swinfen (1992, 139-40) noted a speculative reference to a possible leper hospital in this vicinity, based on the townland name of Poulnalour—from Poll na Lobhar (‘Leper’s Pool/Hole’). However, there is a local belief that the name actually derives from a holy well (CL010-105----) c. 345m to the W, the waters of which were believed to cure leprosy.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Conn Herriott
Date of upload: 28 June 2023
References
Swinfen, A. 1992 Forgotten stones: Ancient church sites of the Burren and environs. Dublin. Lilliput Press.
Nearby in the register
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Holed stoneunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.