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Ecclesiastical site

Laraghbryan East, County Kildare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ecclesiastical site, Laraghbryan East, County Kildare, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

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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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1799 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1830 · V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. C. Kon: Ireland. a. Prov: Leinster. Counties: 1-12 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (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

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

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