Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Religious house - unclassified
Friarstown (dunmurry Ed), County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Friarstown (dunmurry Ed)
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.18994, -6.90370
- SMR number
- KD022-054----
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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
On a stud farm in gently undulating pasture, sloping generally downwards towards the NE. According to local information (SMR file, 1987), the friary of the Black Friars stood here formerly, and ploughing turned up large quantities of stone, some of which was cut. Apparently, stone was removed from the site and used in the construction of some local houses. The townland name Friarstown suggests the townland was a farm belonging to the Preceptory of the Knights Hospitallers at Tully (KD022-034----). It may therefore have been the site of a monastic grange, with a residence and farm buildings, and the stone found at this location could be the remains of such a settlement. In the Extents of Monastic Possessions (White 1943) two messuages (ie house, offices, yards etc) are mentioned in the 1540 extent, which were likely to have been the residences and farm buildings of the two tenants - Mawen OGwyn and Cormack McKylmerton. A cottage was also mentioned at Friarstown (pers. comm. Mr. Con Manning). No visible surface traces survive.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 3 October 2012
Nearby in the register
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.