Rattoo Monastery
The Rattoo Monastery ( Irish Ráth Tuaidh ) is the ruin of an Augustinian canon , which is located about ten kilometers west of the town of Listowel in County Kerry in Ireland . The well-preserved round tower is important .
history
Rattoo is listed in the County Kerry Monuments Register as the site of an early founding of the IroScottish Church around the 6th century, but the exact founding circumstances and the year of establishment are unknown. Next to the round tower are the ruins of a small single-nave Gothic church, the construction of which is dated to the 15th century. A twin window has been preserved in the east wall of the church.
Around 1200 a hospital dedicated to St. John the Baptist was built in Rattoo, where Augustinian canons settled shortly after the building. Among them, the monastery was dedicated to Saints Peter and Paul and belonged to the Arrouaise order . In 1542 the convent was abolished in the course of the Reformation, but the monastery was probably still inhabited until the Desmond rebellions in 1581.
literature
- Aubrey Gwynn and R. Neville Hadcock: Medieval Religious Houses Ireland . Longman, London 1970. ISBN 0582-11229-X , pp. 43 and 191.
- Harbison, Peter: Guide to the National Monuments in the Republic of Ireland , Dublin 1970, p. 118.
Coordinates: 52 ° 26 ′ 32.8 " N , 9 ° 38 ′ 59.5" W.