Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ecclesiastical enclosure
Inchmore, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Inchmore
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.51150, -7.93951
- SMR number
- WM015-011001-
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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 the N side of Inchmore Island on Lough Ree. A monastery was reputedly founded here by St. Laobhán (Ó Riain 2011, 390-1). He was one of 47 children whose mother was Cuman daughter of Dallbhrónach, maternal aunt to Saint Brighid of Kildare, whose was womb had been blessed by St. Patrick (ibid.). His feastday fell on the 9th of August (ibid.). Traces of enclosure to N and W of medieval church ruins (WM015-011----) may be the remains of an Early Christian ecclesiastical enclosure (Swan 1988, 18).
Compiled by: Caimin O’Brien
Date of upload: 9 October 2015
References
Ó Riain, P. 2011 A dictionary of Irish Saints. Dublin. Four Courts Press.
Swan, D.L. 1988 The Early Christian ecclesiastical sites of County Westmeath. In J. Bradley (ed.), Settlement and society in Medieval Ireland: studies presented to F.X. Martin O.S.A., 1-31. Kilkenny. Boethius Press.
Nearby in the register
- Religious house - Augustinian canonsunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosure1 mi
- Church1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.