What is recorded here

South Abbey gave up a pointed door surround that now hides in a Youghal garden wall. The fragment left a sacred building and reappeared as an ordinary boundary marker. A hammer blow or careless move may have broken the abbey open, but the wall still holds the shape of the doorway that disappeared.

In the garden of a house in Youghal. A fragment of a pointed door surround set into the garden wall. It originally came from the South Abbey (CO067-028001-). See also CO067-028006-. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 2: East and South Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1994). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

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