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Situated on a slight rise of ground in undulating countryside in the centre of Toomevara village with a possible church ruins (TN022-070001-) to the N. The poorly preserved remains of an Augustinian priory (TN022-070002-) dedicated to St Mary which was founded some time after 1140 (Gwynn and Hadcock 1970, 155) possibly on the site of an earlier monastic centre dedicated to St Donain. A late fifteenth-century effigial tomb (dims. L 1.33m; top Wth 0.54m; base Wth 0.54m; T 0.17m) described by Hunt (1974, vol. 1, 94, 96, 231) lies outside the S wall at the E end of the Augustinian priory. Described by Gleeson as 'Outside the N wall is a 15th cent. Stone slab showing an ecclesiastic and inscribed in raised letters now partly erased. The name 'Joannes O'Meara' can be read' (Gleeson 1951-2, 133).
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien.
Date of upload: 22 September 2008
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