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Ecclesiastical site

Timolin, County Kildare, Ireland

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Townland
Timolin
County
Kildare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Monastery
Latest-edition OS map
Monastery (Site of)
Coordinates
52.98424, -6.80803
SMR number
KD036-025001-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

Shown on 5 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

A seventh century foundation of St Moling, Bishop of Ferns. There is no visible trace of any structure of this date. According to an inquisition held at Naas (1541) monastery at time of suppression consisted of 'site and precincts of the abbey ... of the walls of a church, a belfrey, a dormitory, a courtyard (aula), and three rooms within the precincts there' (JKAS 1896, 413-25). Fitzgerald also quotes two accounts of a seige of Timolin (1643) which mention a nunnery (KD036-025002-), a church and belfry (presumably associated with the monastery?) and a castle (KD036-026----), of which there are no visible surface traces. The Aroasian convent was probably founded c. 1200 by FitzRichard (see effigy (KD036-025004-)). Fitzgerald also describes two possible souterrains; one (KD036-025005-) discovered below the road to N of the present cemetery, and the second (KD036-025006-) close to E end of present church.

Date of upload: 5 September 2016

Nearby in the register

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

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