Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Religious house - Order of St Thomas of Acon
Carrickbeg,town Parks, County Tipperary South, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrickbeg,town Parks
- County
- Tipperary South
- Country
- Ireland
- SMR number
- TS085-004010-
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The National Monuments Service's description
The Priory or hospital of St. John the Evangelist was founded in Carrick-on-Suir by William de Cantelo and his wife, Dionisia, c. 1240 (Gwynn and Hadcock 1970, 343, 347). Afterwards, it became subject to the Hospital of St. Thomas of Acon, London (Lee 1966, 12-26; Lee 1996, 40). The 'priory' was granted to Thomas Butler, Earl of Ormond, in 1557 (Gwynn and Hadcock 1970, 343, 347). According to the OS Letters it was situated on the banks of the River Suir (O'Flanagan 1930, vol. 1, 64-65 (173-5). It is currently not precisely located.
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.
Lee, G.A. 1966 The leper hospitals of Munster. North Munster Antiquarian Journal 10, 12-26.
Lee, G.A. 1996 Leper hospitals in medieval Ireland. Dublin. Four Courts Press.