Kilcommon

The Benedictine Abbey of Kilcommon (Co. Tipperary) was the only Irish founding of Glastonbury Abbey , apart from the Ardaneer, which was not previously located with certainty . Kilcommon (Kilcumin, Kilcummyn) was donated by Philip of Worcester (Philippus de Wigornia), the Constable of Ireland under Henry II of England.

According to Johannis Glastoniensis , Philip provided the monastery with 100 carucatae of land. It was dedicated to the apostles Philip and James and Saint Cumin of Matefelum (St. Cuimine Fota). The first prior, a certain James, was from Glastonbury like most other monks.

The localization is controversial. The following were proposed:

• Kilcommon in Templebeg Parish , Baronate Kilnelongurty (Kilnamanagh)
• Kilcommon in the parish of Caher , Baronate Iffa and Offa

In 1203 Kilcommon fell together with Looe (Lamana) in Cornwall and Bassaleg (Basselak) in Monmouthshire after an arbitration award by Pope Innocent III. to Savaric , the Bishop of Bath .

swell

• Thomas Hearne (ed.), Johannes Glasoniensis Chronica, Oxford 1726.
• Dugdale (ed.), Monasticon Anglicanum VI / I,

literature

• E. St. John Brooks, Irish Daughter Houses of Glastonbury. Proc. Royal Irish Acad. Sec. C 56, 1953-54, 287-195.