Ballysaggart Monastery

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East view of the monastery ruins with the originally two-part choir window

The Ballysaggart Monastery , ( English Ballysaggart Friary ), also known as Fanegarah , was founded in the second half of the 15th century by MacSwiney Banagh as a house for tertiaries of the Franciscan Order in the Diocese of Raphoe in Ireland . The brothers were evicted from Kinsale after the defeat of the O'Neill and O'Donnell in 1602 .

View from the top of the monastery and Inver Bay

The monastery is located in southern County Donegal in the middle of the elongated peninsula, which extends from Dunkineely about 11 kilometers to St. John's Point in the Atlantic. It is located on the eastern side of the peninsula facing Inver Bay on a small harbor bay. The monastery ruins are now in the private grounds of a farm that can be reached via a cul-de-sac.

Only a few parts of the former monastery have been preserved. In 1907 the west gable of the church, which was about 20.25 × 6.20 meters in size, fell. There was a larger gap below the east window, but this was filled in the 1950s. At the same time, the south and east walls were also restored. The east window had two high openings ending in pointed arches with a bubble-shaped opening above, which was closed at the bottom with a keel arch . The remains of another window are at the east end of the south wall. Underneath there are wells for a piscina and a sedilia . A shaft and a capital of the Sedilia were removed in 1868 and taken to the Church of Saint Catherine in Killybegs . The founder's coffin lid was also removed after Killybegs and is located there in front of the west side of the church.

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Remarks

  1. ^ Gwynn, p. 269.
  2. ↑ Grid square G 74 71: Ordnance Survey (ed.): Discovery Series 10 . Dublin, ISBN 0-904996-49-2 .
  3. ↑ Lacy, pp. 329-330, entry 1874.

Coordinates: 54 ° 35 ′ 38.9 "  N , 8 ° 23 ′ 35.4"  W.