Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ecclesiastical site
Killeagh Gardens, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killeagh Gardens
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- St. Abbans Nunnery (Site of)
- Coordinates
- 51.93965, -7.99586
- SMR number
- CO066-041002-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In a graveyard (CO066-041001-) at the W end of Killeagh village. The 1934 OS 6-inch map indicates 'St. Abban's Nunnery (site of)'. Smith (1750 vol. 1, 124) states 'at this place, was an ancient nunnery of canonesses, founded by St. Abban, in the sixth century' (see also Gwynn & Hadcock 1988, 391); Henchion (1972, 76) points out that 'another body of opinion .... claims in contradiction that the first church ... was raised by Id or Liber, a disciple of St. Finbarr'; no visible surface trace of ancient remains.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 2: East and South Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1994). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Barracksunder 1 mi
- Mill - cornunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.