County Tipperary
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Ardfinnan Monastery
Founded: late 7th century
Early monastic site, founded late 7th century? by St Finan Lobhar (Finan the Leper); burned by the Normans 1178 Franciscan Friars, Third Order Regular foundation and founder unknown; dissolved c.1542;…
Ardfinnan Preceptory
Founded: 1212
Possibly Knights Templar, initially under Templetown; Knights Hospitaller, under Kilsaran founded 1212? (when church confirmed to the Hospitallers)
Athassel Priory
Founded: 1192
Augustinian Canons Regular founded 1192 (c.1200) by William de Burgo, confirmed by King John 1205; erroneously attributed as Trinitarian; held in commandam by Edmund Butler, Archbishop of Cashel; dissolved 1541;…
BALLINGARRY,CREERAGH (Uskane Par.) Holy Well
Listed in SMR (1992) as an unlocated holy well based on reference to ‘Tobburpatricke on the south west of the sd parish’ of Ballingarry (Simington 1934, Vol. 2, 281). Unlocated within townland. Same site as TN011-034–* because the townland traverses two Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic Environment Viewer
BALLYCRINE Holy Well
Located in a hollow between ridges in undulating pastureland. A well presumably contained in a tank which is covered by a barrel-vaulted concrete roof adjacent to which is a small concrete pump-house. A small stream flows SE from the well. There are no k Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic Environment […]
BALLYNAHOW (Ballycahill Par.) Holy Well
Unlocated holy well within townland, Tobernamnamaha well mentioned in the OS letters (O’Flanagan 1930, 176). The above description is derived from ‘The Archaeological Inventory of County Tipperary. Vol. 1 – North Tipperary’ compiled by Jean Farrelly and Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic Environment Viewer
BALLYPATRICK (Temple-etney Par.) Mass Rock
On a S-facing slope c. 25m from W bank of a stream flowing roughly N-S, in pasture. According to Power (1908, 9-10) the field is known as the ‘Field of the Early Church Site’ and was sacred to St. Bearachan. The red sandstone mass-rock (H 0.81m) is located immediately W face of a N-S field […]
Baptistgrange
Crutched Friars (Augustinian rule) non-conventual grange of St John the Baptist’s, Dublin; leased to the Countess of Ormond 1541
Brickendown Well
In rough pasture, in a gentle hollow (dims. 10m NNE-SSW; 9.5m ESE-WNW; max. D 0.65m; sides of hollow at SW: Wth 4m; H 0.65m). Circular well (dims. 0.75m NNE-SSW; 0.75m ESE-WNW) defined by corbelled stone wall (total H 0.85m; H to ground level 0.55m; T 0. Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on […]
Bridget’s Well
In improved pasture, near the base of a NW-facing slope. Named ‘Bridget’s Well’ on 1840 and 1904 ed. OS 6-inch map. Though not visible at ground level, this appears to be a natural spring well which abuts the outside angle of a field boundary. The spring Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on […]
Cahir Priory
Founded: c.1200–1220
Augustinian Canons Regular founded c.1200–1220 (during the reign of King John) by Galfrid de Camville; dissolved 1540; church parochial and conventual buildings occupied by Sir Thomas Butler by January 1541;…
CAPPANAKEADY Holy Well
Situated in a slight hollow on a N-facing slope of rising ground in an upland area with a modern road directly to the N. A natural spring well enclosed by a drystone wall surround. Votive offerings are visible and there is a broken statue in an aumbry ov Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well […]
Carrick on Suir Hospital Priory
Founded: c.1236
Order of St Thomas of Acon founded c.1236 by William de Cantelo, with the consent of his wife Dionisia, confirmed by John de Norragh c.1250; dependent on Acon, London; dwellings…
Carrick on Suir Hospitallers
Knights Hospitaller, frankhouse under the Hospital of Any, recorded 1541
Carrick on Suir Priory
Founded: 1385
Franciscan nuns founded 1385?; dissolved 1542? house purportedly built on site, before 1603 (during the reign of Elizabeth I) by Thomas, 10th Earl of Ormond as principal residence for the…
CARROWNAGLOGH Holy Well
Located north of Terryglass village c. 3m west of a nearby stream with a linear earthwork nearby; part of the monastic complex. A roughly circular-shaped well (0.68m x 0.6m; D 0.25m) enclosed by a semicircular shaped stone wall (H 0.85m; T 0.3m). There i Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic Environment […]
Cashel Dominican Friary
Founded: 1243
Dominican Friars founded 1243 by David O’Kelly, a Dominican friar of Cork; burned accidentally; rebuilt and co-founded by John Cantwell 1480; partly leased by Prior Edward Brown 1535-6; dissolved 1540;…