Convent, ecclesiastical site in County Westmeath

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What is recorded here

Situated in an area of pasture-land. Religious House-Franciscan Friars (WM006-058----) 190m to NE. Depicted on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map as ‘convent’, adjoining the townland boundary between Abbeyland and Multyfarnham. The convent buildings depicted on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map have been levelled, and no trace of any buildings survive.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record WM006-059

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