Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Religious house - Augustinian friars
Oldleighlin, County Carlow, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Oldleighlin
- County
- Carlow
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- SMR number
- CW011-016009-
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The National Monuments Service's description
The following description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Carlow' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload/revision: 17 July 2007
Augustinian Priory of St Stephen, found according to Gwynn and Hadcock (1988, 184) after 1163 at the instigation of St Laurence O'Toole. In ruins by 1432 when it was suppressed. Precise location unknown (Bradley 1989, 50).
References
Bradley, J. and King, H.A. 1990 Urban archaeological survey - county Carlow. Unpublished report commissioned by the Office of Public Works, Dublin.