Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Religious house - Cistercian monks
Buninna, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Buninna
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- SMR number
- SL019-263----
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The National Monuments Service's description
This record refers to one of two possible monastic granges in Dromard parish, Co. Sligo, which belonged to the Cistercian foundation (RO006-068005-) at Boyle, Co. Roscommon (Gwynn and Hadcock (1970, 129). One of the granges may be in Ballinlig townland (SL019-181----), where there is a large rectangular enclosure defined by a fosse, traditionally known as 'the Abbey Field'; the location of the other is unknown.
Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 1 March 2023
References
Gwynn, A. and Hadcock, R.N. 1970 (Reprint 1988) Medieval religious houses of Ireland. Dublin. Irish Academic Press.