Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Religious house - Knights Hospitallers
Friarsquarter East, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Friarsquarter East
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- St Johns House
- Latest-edition OS map
- St. Johns House (Site of)
- Coordinates
- 53.62830, -9.20477
- SMR number
- MA118-007----
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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
In undulating pasture. Church of St. John the Baptist, belonging to Knights Hospitallers; conservation work carried out in 1414, afterwards granted to Augustinian Friars (Gwynn and Hadcock 1970, 339). Very poor remains of structure containing at least two sectors (8.8m N-S; 2.5m E-W and 4m N-S; 4.1m E-W). Various sod-covered foundations around the site.
The above description has been derived from D. Lavelle (compiler), An Archaeological Survey of Ballinrobe and District including Lough Mask and Lough Carra. Lough Mask and Lough Carra Tourist Development Association (1994), No. 618.
Date of upload: 11 November 2013
Nearby in the register
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.