Religious house - Franciscan Third Order Regular

The National Monuments Service's description

A monastery known as 'Ceall Braighe Uallaighe' was probably taken over by the Third Order of Regular Franciscans before 1487 when it was plundered by Aodh Rua O'Donnell (AFM vol. 4, 1153). There is no record of any structures or that it was a nunnery, or of its supression, but in 1582 60 acres belonging to the church was leased to a Bryan McDermot (Gwynn and Hadcock 1970, 269). There was a local tradition in the 19th century that it was a nunnery (O'Flanagan 1837, vol. 2, 1).
Situated in a fold in an undulating landscape. Rectangular graveyard (RO016-015002-) (dims 55.5m ENE-WSW; 36.5m NNW-ESE) defined by masonry walls contains burials from the 18th to the 20th centuries. There is no visible evidence of a church or other structures. Field system (RO-016-015003-) is in the surrounding area.

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 24 August 2010

References

O'Flanagan, Rev. M. (Compiler) 1931 Letters containing information relative to the antiquities of the county of Roscommon collected during the progress of the
Ordnance Survey in 1837. Bray.

AFM - Annals of the kingdom of Ireland by the Four Masters from the earliest period to the year 1616, ed. and trans. John O'Donovan (7 vols., Dublin, 1851; reprint New York, 1966)

Gwynn, A. and Hadcock, R.N. 1970 (Reprint 1988) Medieval religious houses of Ireland. Dublin. Irish Academic Press.