Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Religious house - Augustinian canons
Millbrook, County Offaly, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Millbrook
- County
- Offaly
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Abbey (in Ruins)
- Coordinates
- 53.21529, -7.45375
- SMR number
- OF025-017003-
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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 priory founded in the 12th-century later occupied by late 14th-century Franciscan foundation (OF025-017----) which would explain wide range of dates from the surviving architectural fragments.
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien.
Date of upload: 23 May 2011
Nearby in the register
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.