
What is recorded here
Abbey in Townparks still has a stone barrel vault holding its curve amid the ruins. Whoever built that bit would be unbearable on a walk round: ‘And how’s your straight wall getting on, then?’
Ruins of Saint Leonard's Hospital and Priory c. 1200, Seatown graveyard to south. Random rubble stone walling with barrel vault to west side of site. Random rubble stone walls to east and west of ruins with upright stone grave markers against walls.
The ruins of Saint Leonard's Hospital and Priory date from the twelfth to the sixteenth century and, with the later Seatown Cemetery used until 1896, form an important archaeological, historical and socially important site within the heart of Dundalk. Though in a ruinous state this structure forms an important part of the architectural heritage of Dundalk.
From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 13705115
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