Convent Court

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Northeast view of the monastery

The Court Monastery ( English Court Friary ) was founded before 1449 as a mixed house for Terciaren and Terziarinnen of the Franciscan Order in the Diocese of Achonry in Ireland . In the course of the Reformation, the monastery was closed in 1588 and has since fallen into ruin.

history

The initiative for the foundation came from the priest Andrew O'Clumhain, who received the necessary land from John O'Hara. With the approval of Bishop Cornelius O'Moghan in 1449, it was built as a mixed monastery for brothers and sisters. It is not the only such mixed Franciscan house in Ireland, but there were only a few and they probably did not stay in this constellation for very long as no mixed Franciscan monasteries were later known. In 1454, when the construction of the monastery was already in progress, approval was given by Pope Julius III. that specifically mentions mixed use.

About five kilometers to the west is Kilcummin, which was initially the seat of an early Christian monastery and became a house dependent on Court in 1454 or later. The topographic map from 1838 points to the remains of a rectangular building measuring 10 × 5 meters, of which nothing has survived today.

In 1588 the monastery was closed as part of the Reformation. In a 1586 or 1587 made a survey with was straw or thatch gave the church found to which a cemetery, a dormitory and two other houses belonged. There was also an 80 acre property . In total the value was estimated at 1 pound , 6 shillings and 8 pence . The owner at that time was the priest Roger Ballagh O'Hara. In 1598, however, the entire estate was loaned to William Taaffe as Crown property, and later to Francis Edgworth.

architecture

View from the transept into the nave

What has been preserved is a rectangular church, which is divided by a tower into the nave with a length of around 12 meters and the choir of the same length . The tower is 6.5 meters wide and 4.2 meters deep. It rests on four pillars that rest against the side walls. Further up, the tower becomes narrower and only takes up about half the width. Along with Rosserk, it is one of the Terzian monasteries, which had a tall tower preferred by the Franciscans in Ireland, such as Claregalway . On the south side of the nave there is a transept, which, like the tower, comes from a later construction period. In the transept there are two piscinas on the east wall , which, like in a few other Franciscan monasteries in Ireland, open on two sides, on the one hand to the transept and on the other to the altar. In Court, the piscinas are closed at the top by quarter arches that meet in the middle at the corner.

literature

  • Harold G. Leask: Irish Churches and Monastic Buildings . Volume three. Dundalgan Press, Dundalk 1960.
  • Aubrey Gwynn , R. Neville Hadcock: Medieval Religious Houses in Ireland . Longman, London 1970, ISBN 0-582-11229-X .
  • Colmán N. Ó Clabaigh: The Franciscans in Ireland, 1400–1534 . Four Courts Press, Dublin 2002, ISBN 1-85182-548-7 .
  • Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman, Sheila Ronan, Connie Murphy: Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo . Volume I: South Sligo. Stationery Office, Dublin 2005, ISBN 0-7557-1942-5 .

Web links

Commons : Court Friary  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Remarks

  1. ↑ Gwynn, p. 270; Ó Clabaigh, p. 93.
  2. ^ Gwynn, p. 270.
  3. ↑ Ó Clabaigh, pp. 93-94.
  4. ↑ Gwynn, p. 270; Ó Clabaigh, p. 93.
  5. ^ Gwynn, p. 271.
  6. ↑ Egan et al., P. 412, entry 2641.
  7. ^ Gwynn, p. 270.
  8. ↑ Egan et al., P. 418.
  9. ↑ Leask, pp. 46-47
  10. ↑ Egan et al., P. 419.
  11. ↑ Leask, pp. 161-162.

Coordinates: 54 ° 6 ′ 43.7 "  N , 8 ° 40 ′ 5.3"  W.