Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ecclesiastical site
Cloonard, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cloonard
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Sit of Cloonard Abbey
- Latest-edition OS map
- Cloonard Abbey (Site of)
- Coordinates
- 53.80675, -8.51533
- SMR number
- RO020-019003-
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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
Situated towards the top of the S-facing slope of a WNW-ESE ridge. The site of Cloonard Abbey, of which little is known other than its designation on the 1837 and 1914 eds of the OS 6-inch map, and of which nothing is visible, is immediately adjacent to the W of church site (RO020-019001-). Saint Aodh Fionn of Cloonard was one of seven sons of Caol Uí Oilealla in Co. Sligo, and he may have founded an early church here. These brothers may the same as the sons of Caolbhadh, noted in the martyrologies at 24 April (Ó Riain 2011, 71).
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of revised upload: 9 April 2018
References
Ó Riain, P. 2011 A dictionary of Irish Saints. Dublin. Four Courts Press.
Nearby in the register
- Crossunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Architectural fragmentunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.