Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Religious house - Augustinian canons
Termonfeckin, County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Termonfeckin
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Monastery (Site of)
- Coordinates
- 53.75850, -6.27001
- SMR number
- LH022-041016-
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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
Arroasian canons were established here by Donchad O' Carroll probably about the time of St Malachy, 1144-8. It appears to have been a double monastery for nuns and monks, but by 1195 it seems to have been exclusively a nunnery (Gwynn and Hadcock 1988, 324). The priory of Termonfeckin was surrendered in 1539 by the abbess, Mary Hubbard, who was granted a pension. No visible surface trace. (CLAJ 1911, 359; CLAJ 1944, 293)
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Settlement clusterunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.