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Religious house nunnery - unclassified

Clonmore (Moygoish By.), County Westmeath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Religious house nunnery - unclassified, Clonmore, County Westmeath, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Clonmore (Moygoish By.)
County
Westmeath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Site of Kinard Nunnery
Latest-edition OS map
Kinard Nunnery (Site of)
Coordinates
53.71973, -7.45597
SMR number
WM002-005----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Situated on partially reclaimed grassland with spring well located 35m to ESE. Site of Kinard Nunnery depicted on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map as a rectangular shaped earthwork or moated site with stream marking townland boundary with Lismacaffry immediately to SW. Shown on the OS 25 inch map as a rectangular-shaped area (approx. dims. 36m NE-SW x 25m NW-SE) enclosed by an earthen bank with possible quarry hole in W corner of earthwork. Outline of earthwork visible today with farm buildings immediately to N of earthwork on Digital Globe aerial photographs. No religious site is shown on the 1654-9 Down Survey map of Moygoish Barony or the parish map of Street (NLI, MS 723-4).

Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien

Date of upload: 23 January 2019

References

NLI, MS 723-4 - National Library of Ireland, The parish maps of the Down Survey for the County of Westmeath, attested by W. Petty, in 1659. Copied by Daniel O'Brien. A set of 67 maps with accompanying terriers in two volumes, 1786-7. Dublin.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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