Enclosure

The National Monuments Service's description

On a terrace on a hillside, on fairly wet land in rolling grassland. There are good views in all directions. Carrigan (1905, vol. 2, 258) equates the civil parish of Garranamanagh with the parish of Cloran and Garran which is mentioned in documents relating to Jerpoint Abbey, 'to which it belonged almost from the time of the Abbey's foundation till its suppression'. He states that, 'The "monastery" [KK009-058001-] of Garranamanagh stood to the west of the late Mr. Nicholas Healy's house, within an enclosure half an acre in extent and surrounded by a fosse 10 ft. [c. 3m] wide and 8 ft. [c. 2.4m] deep. The enclosure, which was covered over with foundations and debris of fallen walls, was levelled and tilled, and the fosse partially filled up, about forty or fifty years ago. Pieces of cut-stone were unearthed at the time, among them being an inscribed flag [KK009-058003-], 8 in. [0.21m] square, whose whereabouts cannot now be traced' (ibid.). This may have been a grange associated with Jerpoint Abbey (KK028-062005-). It is not visible at ground level.

Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Date of upload: 7 February 2018

References

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