Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Church
Friar'S Island, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Friar'S Island
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.02709, -9.50399
- SMR number
- KE066-080----
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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)
- 1868 · 4. Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
On a limestone rock, covered with overgrowth, in Castlelough Bay. Not visible at ground level. Recorded by Hayward (1987, 62) as a small oratory, close to the shore. According to local information, friars from Muckross Abbey often came here to live in solitude.
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
- Quayunder 1 mi
- Country houseunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy tree/bushunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.