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Religious house - Augustinian nuns

Aghade, County Carlow, Ireland

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Townland: Aghade
County: Carlow
Country: Ireland
First-edition OS map: Church, Baptismal Font, Holy Well, Graveyard
Latest-edition OS map: All Saints Church, Holy Well, Baptismal Font
Coordinates: 52.76034, -6.73984
SMR number: CW013-057001-

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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 revision: 16 December 2009
Revised by: J. Farrelly

O'Donovan (OSL 1839, 138-40) quotes Archdall Monasticon: '… about the year 1151 an Abbey was founded here, for nuns of the order of St. Augustine by Dermot the son of Murchad King of Leinster…' Aghade Rectory is mentioned in Inquisition of 1549 (JKAS 1933, 255) and shown on Down Survey (1655-6) map. Present remains consist of single basin bullaun stone (CW013-057003-) in granite boulder (the 'Baptismal Font') and unnamed but supposedly holy well (CW013-057004-). (Gwynn and Hadcock 1988, 372). There is an associated graveyard (CW013-057002-).

References

Gwynn, A. and Hadcock, R.N. 1970 (Reprint 1988) Medieval religious houses of Ireland. Dublin. Irish Academic Press.

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Graveyardunder 1 mi
Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
Burial groundunder 1 mi

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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