Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Religious house - Franciscan friars
Cork City, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cork City
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Franciscan Abbey (Site of) (1950)
- Coordinates
- 51.90092, -8.48277
- SMR number
- CO074-028002-
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Shown on 4 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
Foundation date uncertain; Annals of Four Masters record foundation of 'monastery of St. Francis at Cork' by Diarmait MacCarthaig in 1229 (Bradley et al. 1985, 87). Extent of friary cleary outlined in confirmation grant by Philip Prendergast c. 1300 as land between burgesses of Shandon (possibly Shandon Street) and holy well (CO074-074---), and between rock cliff to N and River Lee to S. Hardiman map (c. 1601) and Philips' map (1685) show church located on N bank of river near bend in Lee where St. Vincent's Bridge (foot bridge) now stands. New church built in 1700, but not where former stood. Burials found during construction of houses on North Mall, in 1804; fragment of double ogee-headed window surround built into wall at Wise's Hill.
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
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