Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ecclesiastical site
Oughterard, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Oughterard
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- SMR number
- KD015-007002-
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The National Monuments Service's description
Little is known about the original monastic site in the environs of which the Anglo-Norman borough of Oughterard may have been founded. Gwynn and Hadcock (1970, 400) suggest it may have belonged to a community of nuns founded in the 6th century by St. Bridget (although not the St. Bridget of Kildare). Apart from a reference to a raid in 1094 mentioned in the Annals of the Four Masters, nothing else known of it. (Bradley et al. 1986 vol. 4, 400) It was presumably in the vicinity of the later round tower (KD015-007003-), medieval parish church (KD015-007005-) and graveyard (KD015-007004-).
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 10 June 2011
References
Bradley, J., Halpin, A., and King, H.A. 1986 Urban Archaeological Survey - County Kildare (4 vols.). Unpublished report commissioned by the Office of Public Works, Dublin.
Gwynn, A. and Hadcock, R.N. 1970 (Reprint 1988) Medieval religious houses of Ireland. Dublin. Irish Academic Press.