Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Religious house - Franciscan Third Order Regular
Toomona, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Toomona
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Monastery
- Latest-edition OS map
- Monastery (Site of)
- Coordinates
- 53.76987, -8.29110
- SMR number
- RO028-009001-
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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
On an undulating low-lying landscape. A friary which may have been Dominican or Franciscan was founded here by O'Conor Rua, probably in the 15th century. In 1585 when it was granted to Edward Crofton it was described as Friancisan Third Order, and consisted of a church, cemetery and a quarter of land (Gwynn and Hadcock 1980, 275; Gormley 1989, 147-8). It is not visible at ground level in pasture. Field system (RO-028-010---) is just to the SW, on the other side of a NW-SE stream, and the road (RO028-008002-) runs NE towards Ogulla well (RO022-106003-).
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
References
Gwynn, A. and Hadcock, R.N. 1970 (Reprint 1988) Medieval religious houses of Ireland. Dublin. Irish Academic Press.
Gormley, M. (compiler) 1989 Tulsk parish in historic Maigh Aí. Aspects of its history and folklore. Author
Nearby in the register
- House - 18th/19th centuryunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Road - road/trackwayunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.