
What is recorded here
Situated on partially reclaimed grassland with spring well located 35m to ESE. Site of Kinard Nunnery depicted on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map as a rectangular shaped earthwork or moated site with stream marking townland boundary with Lismacaffry immediately to SW. Shown on the OS 25 inch map as a rectangular-shaped area (approx. dims. 36m NE-SW x 25m NW-SE) enclosed by an earthen bank with possible quarry hole in W corner of earthwork. Outline of earthwork visible today with farm buildings immediately to N of earthwork on Digital Globe aerial photographs. No religious site is shown on the 1654-9 Down Survey map of Moygoish Barony or the parish map of Street (NLI, MS 723-4).
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 23 January 2019
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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