Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Hospital
Toberaheena (inishlounaght Par.), County Tipperary South, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Toberaheena (inishlounaght Par.)
- County
- Tipperary South
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- SMR number
- TS083-036----
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The National Monuments Service's description
On relatively level ground immediately E of St. Stephen's Place and S of the Western Road is the church (TS083-031----) and graveyard (TS083-031001-) of St. Stephen. The earliest record to St. Stephen's lazar house and attendant church is from the year 1510 (Lee 1966, 12-26). On the 20th of December of that year the Commissioner of the Bishop of Lismore and Waterford decided that the ecclesiastical revenues of St. Stephen's appertained to its rector and not to the Prior of Athassel (ibid.). A Court Survey held at Clonmel on the 9th of August 1655 described St. Stephen's as 'wholly destroyed onely some part of the wall standing...' (Burke 1907, 244). There is no trace of the leper hospital mentioned in 1510 and its precise location is unknown.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 17 February 2015
References
Burke, Rev. W. P. 1907 History of Clonmel. The Clonmel Library Committee.
Lee, G.A. 1966 The leper hospitals of Munster. North Munster Antiquarian Journal 10, 12-26.