Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Religious house - Franciscan friars
Killeennagallive, County Tipperary South, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killeennagallive
- County
- Tipperary South
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Killeengallive Abbey (in Ruins)
- Latest-edition OS map
- Killeengallive Abbey (in Ruins)
- Coordinates
- 52.50201, -8.36068
- SMR number
- TS057-004----
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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
In grassland on S-facing slope of low rise of ground in upland area with good views in all directions. This was the site of a convent of Friars Minor founded during the reign of Henry VI (Gwynn and Hadcock 1988, 272). The Franciscan friary of Kyllalie consistsed of three messuages, 5 acres arable, 1 acre marsh and the site of a watermill (TS057-025----) in Kyllalie and was granted in 1543, rent 4d. to Dermot Ryan and assigned to Mark Magrath (Gwynn and Hadcock 1988, 272). The present remains consist of the wall-footings of the E half of a possible church (approx. ext. dims. 17.4m E-W; 12.6m N-S; wall T 0.8m) of which only a short stretch of the N wall (L 3.4m; H 0.5m) survives above ground as well as the lower courses of the E wall (H 1.2m) and the S wall (L 4.8m ; H 0.5m). The remains of a range of buildings is evident from a wall which runs southward from the S wall of the church (L 18m) and then returns W for a distance of 6.5m. There is no evidence of any wall along the W side of this range of buildings (overall internal dims. 29.5m N-S x 9.2m E-W) and a small quarry (dims. L 13m; top Wth 3.5m; base Wth 2m; D 0.9m) running N-S along this side may have removed all evidence of the buildings. The walls of the church were constructed with coursed red sandstone rubble. It is depicted on 1st ed. OS 6-inch map as a long rectangular building orientated on an E-W axis with a second building running N-S to S of the W end of the church. There is no evidence of any burial ground associated with the abbey. Described in the OS letters as Mainistir Cillin na Geala of which only a small fragment of one wall remains which measures three feet thick (O'Flanagan 1930, vol. 1, 12).
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
References
O'Flanagan, Rev. M. (Compiler) 1930 Letters containing information relative to the antiquities of the county of Tipperary collected during the progress of the Ordnance Survey in 1840. Bray.
Gwynn, A. and Hadcock, R.N. 1970 (Reprint 1988) Medieval religious houses of Ireland. Dublin. Irish Academic Press.
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosure - large enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Burial moundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.