Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Religious house nunnery - unclassified
Killybrone, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killybrone
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- SMR number
- MA015-060003-
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The National Monuments Service's description
This record refers to a possible nunnery in Killybrone townland. Neary (1913-14, 14) lists it as ‘Cill Foreland, a long vanished nunnery in Killybrone, near Mullaghorne’. It may have been associated with a church (MA015-060001-) and graveyard (MA015-060002-), which according to the 1838 OS Letters (O’Flanagan 1927, 287-8 (124)) and local tradition was located on summit of the ridge in the W part of the townland, close to a destroyed ringfort (MA015-048---), Mullaghorn Fort. However, no trace of a church or nunnery is now evident on the ridge top.
Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 14 November 2017
References
O'Flanagan, Rev. M. (Compiler) 1927 Letters containing information relative to the antiquities of the county of Kildare collected during the progress of the Ordnance Survey in 1838. Bray.
Neary, Rev. J. 1913-14 Some notes on Killala Diocese. Journal of the Galway Archaeological and Historical Society 8, 12-38