Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Religious house - Franciscan nuns (Poor Clares)
Town Parks, County Tipperary South, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Town Parks
- County
- Tipperary South
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.34505, -7.40692
- SMR number
- TS085-004003-
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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
At the E end of town, E of Castle Street, on the N bank of River Suir. The Butler Castle (TS085-004001-) is said to have been built on the site of a Poor Clare convent (Gwynn and Hadcock 1988, 314). Possibly one of the three convents of Franciscan nuns in Ireland mentioned by Peter de Trau in 1385-99 (ibid.).
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
References
Gwynn, A. and Hadcock, R.N. 1970 (Reprint 1988) Medieval religious houses of Ireland. Dublin. Irish Academic Press.
Nearby in the register
- Bawnunder 1 mi
- Castle - Anglo-Norman masonry castleunder 1 mi
- House - 16th centuryunder 1 mi
- House - 17th centuryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.