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Religious house - unclassified

Loughill, County Kilkenny, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Religious house - unclassified, Loughill, County Kilkenny, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Loughill
County
Kilkenny
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Abbey (in ruins)
Latest-edition OS map
Abbey (in Ruins)
Coordinates
52.85591, -7.29206
SMR number
KK001-004004-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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)
  • 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

On a W-facing slope in undulating terrain with a stream at the base of the slope to W. ‘Loughill Monastery’, according to Carrigan (1905, vol. 2, 115-7), ‘stood about 150 yards to the south or south-east of the church, in the same field, to the west of Warren’s old house. Not a vestige of it now remains, except some hillocks and mounds. Archdall in his Monasticaon refers to it as follows: “Leamchuill on the borders of Leix and Hyduach. St. Fintan Corach was Abbot here towards the close of the 6th century; by some writers he is said to have been interred here, and from others we learn that Cluain-ednach or Clonfert-Brendan was the place of his sepulture. St. Mochonna was Abbot or Bishop here, but at what time is unknown”. On the 1st (1839) and 2nd (1899-1902) ed. OS 6-inch map a small roofless building (dims. c. 5m N-S; c. 4m E-W) is indicated as ‘Abbey (in Ruins), it is c. 60m W of the former Loughill House and c. 14m N of its former formal garden. There is no visible trace of this structure at ground level.

Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Date of upload: 30 May 2016

References

Carrigan, Rev. W. 1905 (Reprint 1981) The history and antiquities of the diocese of Ossory, 4 vols. Kilkenny. Roberts Books and Wellbrook Press.

Nearby in the register

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

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