What is recorded here

Laharran is named in the request but the supplied facts point to Minane Bridge in County Cork, where a moulded stone basin from the Cistercian abbey of Tracton still stands in the church grounds. The basin may have held water for washing, drinking or ritual, and its smooth curve would have felt familiar under monkish hands before the abbey fell silent. It is not a grand hall or a complete chapel, but a fragment large enough to touch, remember and imagine.

This record relates to a moulded stone basin from the Cistercian abbey of Tracton (CO99-043003-) that now stands in the grounds of Minane Bridge R.C. church The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 2: East and South Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1994). In this instance the entry has been revised. Revised by: Paul Walsh Date of upload: 05 November 2013

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