Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Religious house - Franciscan friars
Abbey, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Abbey
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Abbey (Site of) (1944)
- Coordinates
- 51.67777, -9.47301
- SMR number
- CO118-030002-
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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
Site now occupied by graveyard (CO118-030001-); only visible remains are collection of sixteen late-medieval carved fragments in graveyard; mostly from door and indoor surround and parts of cloister arcading. Franciscan Friary in existence in 1466 and supressed in 1542 (Gwynn and Hadcock 1988, 243); greatly damaged by English in 1568 and remains taken down by Domhnal O'Sullivan Bere in 1602 (O'Mahony 1967, 147).
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1992). 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
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape featureunder 1 mi
- Settlement clusterunder 1 mi
- Country houseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.