Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ecclesiastical site
Coolclieve, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Coolclieve
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.17774, -9.65162
- SMR number
- KE047-085----
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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
In level pasture, just N of a bend in the River Maine. The possible ecclesiastical remains are not visible at ground level. According to local information, the remains of a monastery were removed during land clearance. It was known locally as a monastic site of St Carthach, it shares its name with the ecclesiastical remains (KE047-029----) in Meanus, c. 2.4km to the W. Described in the 1840s as a 'remarkable rocky mountain...called Parknacarriga and is said to be formerly a monastery' (OSNB, Molahiffe, 31). In the 1940s it was recorded that 'a mound of earth and stones' are all that remains of the monastery in a field still known as the 'Monastaire' (ITA). It was 'St. Carthage's first foundation after leaving the mother convent at Kilganilander' (ibid.).
Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork.
Date of upload: 31 January 2011
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.