Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ecclesiastical site
Laraghbryan East, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Laraghbryan East
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.38170, -6.61387
- SMR number
- KD005-009001-
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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
The site was an early monastic foundation associated with St Senan (possibly of Scattery Island, Co Clare). The death of its abbot Glaindibur is recorded in AD 767 and its oratory was burnt and plundered by the 'men of Meath' in AD 1036 and again in AD 1040. (Gwynn and Hadcock 1970, 396). Because of it's location on a major route way, it was, according to McSweeney (1940, 125), a monastic rest house for pilgrims and clerics passing E and W. A medieval church (KD005-009002-) and graveyard (KD005-009002-) are likely to stand on, or close to, the early monastery, of which no visible surface trace survives; except for a small portion of a possibly associated enclosure (KD005-021----) c. 250m to the NE. According to the OSL (Herity 2002, 15-16) Archdall records the death of the First Earl of Kildare at Laraghbryan in AD 1316.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 10 June 2011
References
Gwynn, A. and Hadcock, R.N. 1970 (Reprint 1988) Medieval religious houses of Ireland. Dublin. Irish Academic Press.
Herity, M. (ed.) 2002 Ordnance Survey Letters Kildare. Dublin. Four Masters Press.
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.