Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Religious house - Augustinian, of Arrouaise nuns
Callystown, County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Callystown
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- NULL
- Coordinates
- 53.79010, -6.25443
- SMR number
- LH022-034----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1636 "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
The following description is derived from both the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1986) and the 'Archaeological Survey of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1991). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload/revision: 17 July 2007
Also known as Kellystown or Calliaghtown, and the name might suggest a nunnery or convent. According to Gwynn and Hadcock (1988, 324), shortly after 1507 nuns moved from Termonfeckin to Calliaghtown. (See also LH022-041016-). There is an area of rock outcrop on the N side of the road from Callystown to Clogher which according to local tradition is called 'Knocks' and was the site of the convent. (CLAJ 1930, 184; Gwynn and Hadcock 1988, 318, 324)
Nearby in the register
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical siteunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.