Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Hospital
Killaraght, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killaraght
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.93323, -8.35314
- SMR number
- SL047-083007-
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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
According to Gwynn and Hadcock (1970, 352), 'a hospital established in the fifth century by St Adrochta and connected with her convent of nuns, appears to have continued, with the convent, till the sixteenth century'.
Compiled by: Archaeological Survey Unit, UCC with revisions by Patrick F. O'Donovan and Paul Walsh
Date of upload: 20 June 2011
Nearby in the register
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Religious house - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.