Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveyard
Killeigh, County Offaly, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killeigh
- County
- Offaly
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Grave Yard
- Coordinates
- 53.21328, -7.45297
- SMR number
- OF025-017004-
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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.
Graveyard (OF025-017004-) to the S of the Franciscan Friary contains 17th/19th-century headstones. This evidence indicates continued ecclesiastical settlement from the Early Christian period to the present. (Comerford 1883, 190-2; Cooke 1875, 256; Fitzgerald 1918-22, 23-32; O' Flanagan 1933, vol. 1, 23; Hadcock 1964, 128; Sheehy 1969 vol. 14, 2-3)
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
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.