Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Leper hospital
Ballinamought West / Montenotte, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballinamought West / Montenotte
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- SMR number
- CO074-079----
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The National Monuments Service's description
According to Smith (1750, vol. 1, 381) 'a considerable part of the lands of this parish', whose church St. Brendan (CO074-058---) stood - on N side of River Lee and on one side of Youghal road -, 'were formerly appropriated to the maintenance of a leper-house'. Exact location not known.
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