Ecclesiastical site in Grange (east Muskerry By.) — Report the wrong picture

What is recorded here

Grange House in County Cork stands on the claimed site of an abbey founded by St. Cear, though formal lists omit the foundation entirely. The building presents as a modernised two-storey residence with no visible ancient features, yet local tradition insists part of the original walls still hidden beneath its structure. That gap between memory and proof gives the house a quiet strangeness, as if centuries of prayer and forgetting remain buried under ordinary domestic life.

According to Lewis (1937, vol. 1, 89) Grange House 'occupies the site of Grange abbey (said to have been founded by St. Cear, who died in 679), and includes part of the ancient walls'; however no such foundation is listed by Gwynn and Hadcock (1988). Grange House is modernised 3-bay, 2-storey gable-ended house with recent extension to rear; no apparent features of ancient character. Local tradition agrees with Lewis that house built on site of abbey. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). 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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