Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Religious house - Augustinian canons
Kilmoney, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilmoney
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Abbey (in Ruins) (1934)
- Coordinates
- 51.81255, -8.40625
- SMR number
- CO098-020----
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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
S of Carrigaline, in area cordoned-off from pasture field, on grounds of Kilmoney Abbey House (CO098-016----); ivyclad W gable of church. Point of gable fallen. Surviving wall (L 6.5m; Wth 1m) broken off to N whereas to S short return (L 0.35m) of S wall survives, though exterior SW corner fallen. Set high on gable lintelled opening (H 1.15m; Wth 0.7m) with straight sides, may be remains of window ope. According to Gwynn and Hadcock (1988, 183) 'a small cell' of the Gill Abbey (CO074-036---) in Cork, 'probably merely a vicarage after the mid-fourteenth century'; foundation date 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
Nearby in the register
- Country houseunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.