Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Religious house - unclassified
Rathcoun, County Tipperary South, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rathcoun
- County
- Tipperary South
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Site of Monastery
- Latest-edition OS map
- Monastery (in Ruins)
- Coordinates
- 52.49883, -7.92181
- SMR number
- TS060-107003-
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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
Within the NW quadrant of enclosure (TS060-107005-). Rectangular area (dims. 14.6m NNE-SSW; 6.4m ESE-WNW) defined by remains of stone wall (T 1.1m; min. int. H 0.15m; min. ext. H 0.1m) on NNE, ESE and SSW sides. Wall (max. int. H 1.1m; max. ext. H 0.45m) is cut into upslope (D 0.65m) on WNW side and is best preserved at SSW end where 1-2 courses of wall extend (H 0.45m) above exterior ground level. Stones of wall are moss covered and occasionally sod covered. Interior has been levelled off due to cutting into hillslope, but is uneven due to sod-covered stone from collapsed walls. Most of mortar has perished from joints between stones. The OS Letters (Flanagan 1930, vol. 1, 119 (314)) state that this is a 'supposed friary of which foundations remain'. Named 'Holy Well' on 1840-41 and latest edition OS 6-inch maps. According to Gwynn and Hadcock (1988, 368) the 'site of a monastery [is located] two miles south-west of Cashel'…. and is named 'Cluain-conbruin…founded by St. Abban'. However, Ó Cearbhaill (2010, 95-6) places the church of Cluain Conbhruin at Derrycloney (TS0068-098----).
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 14 July 2014
References
Ó Cearbhaill, P. 2010 Logainmneacha na hÉireann II: Cluain i logainmneacha Co. Thiobraid Árann. The Stationery Office. Dublin.
Gwynn, A. and Hadcock, R.N. 1970 (Reprint 1988) Medieval religious houses of Ireland. Dublin. Irish Academic Press.
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.