Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Religious house - Augustinian nuns
Ballinvally, County Offaly, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballinvally
- County
- Offaly
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Convent (in Ruins)
- Coordinates
- 53.21251, -7.45069
- SMR number
- OF025-017002-
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Associated with St. Sinchell who founded a monastery here in the sixth century. The church and convent marked on the OS 6-inch map are the same buildings which represent the remains of a large Franciscan Abbey formerly the site of an Augustinian Priory (OF025-017003-) which is today incorporated into a guest house (OF025-030----) and a C of I church.
Site of Augustinian nunnery defined by well preserved large impressive earthwork consisting of two earthen banks with a deep wide flat bottomed intervening fosse which form an annexe to the main ecclesiastical enclosure on the SE side. No remains of any buildings within this annexe survives.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Offaly' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload: 23 May 2011
Nearby in the register
- Stone headunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.