Lackeen Castle
| Lackeen Castle | ||
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 The ruins of Lackeen Castle |
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| Alternative name (s): | Caisleán Leacaoin | |
| Creation time : | 12th Century | |
| Castle type : | Niederungsburg (Tower House) | |
| Conservation status: | ruin | |
| Standing position : | Irish nobility | |
| Construction: | Quarry stone | |
| Place: | Abbeville ( Lorrha ) | |
| Geographical location | 53 ° 5 '19 " N , 8 ° 4' 26" W | |
| Height: | 53 m ASLTemplate: height / unknown reference | |
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Lackeen Castle ( Irish Caisleán Leacaoin ) is the ruin of a tower house within a fence in the town of Abbeville near Lorrha in Ireland's County Tipperary . The original fortress of the O'Kennedys from the 12th century was renovated in the 16th century, is now state-owned and is a national monument . Occasionally it is open to the public. Nearby is Lackeen House , a country house from the 1730s.
Missal by Lorrha
The missal of Lorrha , actually more of a sacramentary than missal , was found in Lackeen Castle . It is an Irish illuminated manuscript which was written mainly in Latin with a few Gaelic passages at the end of the 8th or beginning of the 9th century, probably after 792. In the middle of the 11th century it was annotated and some pages were rewritten in Lorrha Monastery. It is also called the "Stowe" missal because it was once part of the collection of Stowe manuscripts that George Nugent-Temple-Grenville, 1st Marquess of Buckingham , formed at Stowe House . After the state bought the collection in 1883, it and other Irish manuscripts were given to the Royal Irish Academy in Dublin , where they can still be found today under catalog number "MS D II 3". The Cumdach or reliquary , which until then along with the folios had been preserved, was later along with the other antique collections of the Academy under the number "1883, 614a" to the National Museum of Ireland transferred. It was previously believed that the manuscript, along with the reliquary, left Ireland after around 1375, as they were collected on mainland Europe in the 18th century. However, this has been proven wrong as they were found on Lackeen Castle in the 18th century.
Individual evidence
- ^ Main Record - Tipperary North (Lackeen House, Tipperary North). In: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage. Retrieved May 20, 2019 .
- ↑ Lackeen Castle, Lorrha. In: Historic Houses and Castles. Discover Ireland, accessed May 20, 2019 .
- ↑ Warner, VII – VIII.
- ^ Warner, LVII-LVIII.
- ↑ Patrick F. Wallace, Raghnall O'Floinn (Ed.): Treasures of the National Museum of Ireland: Irish Antiquities . Gill & Macmillan, Dublin 2002, ISBN 0-7171-2829-6 , p. 234.
