Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Religious house - unclassified
Ballybuggy, County Laois, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballybuggy
- County
- Laois
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.83995, -7.60585
- SMR number
- LA034-004----
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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)
- 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
Tradition of a Nunnery here (Carrigan 1905, vol. 1, 6). No surface remains visible.
According to Carrigan there was in the townland of Ballybuggy a 'nunnery chapel of St. Bridget, which we identify with Colgan's 'Capella' of Kill-Bridge-Minor' (Carrigan 1905, vol. 1, 6). He goes on to say that 'St. Bridget is the patron of Ballybuggy; and it is the constant tradition of the locality that there was a Nunnery here, which she honoured with a visit, on the occasion of her journey from Kildare, to meet St. Patrick, at Cashel (Carrigan 1905, vol. 2, 342).
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 17 December 2007
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy tree/bushunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Architectural fragmentunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.