Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Religious house nunnery - unclassified
Clonmore (moygoish By.), County Westmeath, Ireland
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----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
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.
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.