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In broad fairly steep-sided N-S valley with small near vertical-sided (H 2-3m) stream gorge at the bottom. Fair views along and across valley. The fields are mostly reclaimed grassland. The site of an abbey is indicated at this location on the 1st (1839) ed. and 1900 ed. OS 6-inch map. O'Kelly (1969, 94), describes the site of the abbey 'here recorded as Mainstrelondrode, possibly Mainistir an lontsrotha, abbey of the fierce flowing stream, is by the stream rushing down from Coorleagh on the left bank and a small walled-in area recorded on the O.S. sheet as a church [KK015-032002-] is on the opposite side. In this abbey St. Finbarr of Cork received his early education'. O'Brien (1955, 17-18) refers to it as the 'ancient monastery of Kilmacahill...an important centre of Christian culture in the 6th century'. According to O'Kelly (1953, 24-5), 'what little remains of the Abbey is now covered with brushwood and briars and local inhabitants state that the then remaining walls were used long years ago to build the road bridge that spans the stream a few hundred yards to the north'. There is no visible trace of this monument at ground level.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 7 March 2016
This remains an important historical record, but the official description says the monument is no longer visible or has been destroyed.
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