County Monaghan

Located on a N-facing slope. A well, which is known locally as St Dympna’s Well or St Davnet’s Well, has a cement canopy that was provided in the 1950a. It is connected with St Dympna of Tedavnet, whose church (MO006-022001-) is c. 4km to the SSE but Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View […]

Located in the valley of a rapid NW-SE stream, it is situated in Tonaneeve townland c. 5m from the E bank of a N-S section of the stream just before the stream turns E. A flat triangular stone (dims 1.3m x 0.7m; T 0.15m) is set on a piece of rock outcrop (total H 0.8m). […]

Early monastic site, founded before 845

Augustinian Friars

Early monastic site, Gaelic monks, founded before 549/50 by St Tigernach Augustinian Canons Regular founded after 1140? Augustinian Canons Regular — Arroasian? reformed c.1144?; dissolved after 1586?; granted to Sir…

High Cross located in Monaghan.

Early monastic site, Gaelic nuns, patronised by St Colman; termon land 1591

Early monastic site, Gaelic nuns, founded before 740

Located at the NE edge of an oval grass-covered hollow (dims c. 27m N-S; c. 11m E-W) surrounded by rocks and scrub except at the S where it connects with a minor E-W road. It is a the bottom of an E-W valley. The mass-rock is a large, flat-topped stone (dims 1.7m N-S; 0.6-0.7m; E-W; […]

Located at the summit of a hill, and just below the top of a N-facing cliff of rock outcrop (H c. 3m). At the foot of the cliff is a ledge (Wth 1.5-2m; L c. 6m) that has a slight barrier of lower rock outcrop (Wth c. 3m; max. ext. H c. 5m) to the […]

Early monastic site, founded by St Patrick; plundered by Norsemen 832

Early monastic site, patronised by St Molua

Situated at a knoll of rock outcrop on the undulating summit of a broad hill. This is a sub-triangular piece of rock outcrop (dims 13m NW-SE; 8.5m NE-SW at NW; H 1-1.2m) with the apex at SE where it is grass-covered. At the N angle there is an indentation (dims 2.3m NW-SE; 0.9m NE-SW) with […]

Early monastic site, Gaelic monks

Situated at the bottom of a S and E-facing slope and c. 10m N of a SW-NE stream close to a point where the stream turns NW. It is described as a ‘Holy Well’ in gothic lettering on the 1834 and 1907 editions of the OS 6-inch map and it is known locall Monument Type: […]

Early monastic site, founded before 587; burned 789; plundered 948; possibly not surviving after 10th century; burned 1166

Supposed monastic site — order and period unknown; remains of ‘Abbey’ church — possibly legendary

Located at a break in slope on a S-facing slope and on the E side of a NNE-SSW field bank. In the 1960s the landowner and a local priest built a concrete wall around the mass-rock, which is still present creating a bay (dims 1.05m NE-SW; 0.7m NW-SE; H 0.7m) open to the SE and […]

Purported ‘Abbey’ site

Located towards the bottom of the SE-facing slope of a NW-SE drumlin ridge and c. 65m W of a N-S section of the Fane River. A N-S section of disused railway embankment is just to the E. It is marked only on the 1907 edition of the OS 6-inch map where it Monument Type: Ritual […]