Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Religious house - Franciscan friars
Mullingar, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Mullingar
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Friary in Ruins
- Latest-edition OS map
- Friary (Site of)
- Coordinates
- 53.52790, -7.33534
- SMR number
- WM019-089013-
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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
The Urban Survey of Westmeath (Bradley et. al. 1985, 121) recorded that ‘marked on the O.S. maps at the north-east end of the town (WM019-089----) this may be the site to which the Franciscans were reintroduced in the seventeenth century’. Depicted as 'Friary in Ruins' on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map where it is shown located beside a Tuck and Corn Mill standing on the bank of the River Brosna. In 1984 the foundation trenches of a council housing scheme at Friars Mill Road was inspected and no evidence of any archaeological material was visible (SMR File 21/05/1984). The site of the Friary was located on the S side of Friars Mill Road opposite Cusack Park.
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien and R. Barrett
Date of upload: 03 June 2014
References
Bradley, J., Halpin, A., and King, H. 1985 Urban archaeological survey - county Westmeath. Unpublished report commissioned by the Office of Public Works, Dublin.
Nearby in the register
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Buildingunder 1 mi
- Religious house - Augustinian canonsunder 1 mi
- Water mill - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.