Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Religious house - Franciscan friars
Dysart (moyashel & Magheradernon By.), County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Dysart (moyashel & Magheradernon By.)
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- SMR number
- WM025-110006-
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The National Monuments Service's description
A Franciscan friary at Dysart is listed by Bishop De Burgo in the 18th century (Gwynn and Hadcock 1970, 278; De Burgo 1762, 744). According to Archdall in the year 1331 there is a reference to Reginald prior of Dysart (Moran 1876, 322). Cogan (1867, 424) stated that there was an abbey here called Disert-Maoltuile (WM025-110003-). The precise location of this friary if there ever was one at Dysart has not been identified.
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 8 November 2017
References
Cogan, Rev. A. 1862-70 Ecclesiastical history of the diocese of Meath: ancient and modern. (3 vols) Dublin: John Fowler, Joseph Dollard
De Burgo, T. 1762 Hibernia Dominicana. Cologne.
Gwynn, A. and Hadcock, R.N. 1970 (Reprint 1988) Medieval religious houses of Ireland. Dublin. Irish Academic Press.
Moran, P. F. 1876 Monasticon Hibernicum: Or, A History of the Abbeys, Priories, and Other Religious Houses in Ireland; Interspersed with Memoirs of Their Several Founders and Benefactors, and of Their Abbots and Other Superiors, to the Time of Their Final Suppression, Volume 2. Dublin. W. B. Kelly.