Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Religious house - unclassified
Killedan, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killedan
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.87995, -9.00154
- SMR number
- MA071-169003-
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Located on the W bank of the Pollagh River, 240m S of its confluence with the Glore and Gwestion Rivers.
Samuel Lewis (1837, 135) recorded that ‘Here was a friary of conventual Franciscans which existed till the Reformation. There are some remains of the old church.’ An inquisition of 1608 found that it had property to the value of six shillings, suggesting that the friary was still in existence in the post-reformation period (Gwynne and Hadcock 1970, 279).
The remains now consist of a ruined medieval church (MA071-169001-) enclosed within a graveyard (MA071-169002-). There are no other visible remains of the religious foundation.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 23 September 2021
References
Gwynn, A. and Hadcock, R.N. 1970 (Reprint 1988) Medieval religious houses of Ireland. Dublin. Irish Academic Press.
Lewis, S. 1837 A topographical dictionary of Ireland, 2 vols. London. Lewis and Co.
Nearby in the register
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.